{"quotes":[{"text":"The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.","author":"Kelsey Brickl","tags":["battle","civil-war","conflict","dragging-on","interminable","tendency","war"],"id":62975,"author_id":"Kelsey+Brickl"},{"text":"If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["assume","bad","bad-habit","befall","befell","complain","depression","dragon","fear","future","happen","hoard","loss","mourn","much","occur","occurence","past","predict","sadness","sorrow","tendency","wallow","woe","woes"],"id":71396,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"Truth is a tendency.","author":"R. Buckminster Fuller","tags":["truth is","tendency "],"id":90313,"author_id":"R.+Buckminster+Fuller"},{"text":"The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.","author":"Wilson M. Mukama","tags":["barrier","communication","listening","reply","tendency","understand"],"id":142873,"author_id":"Wilson+M.+Mukama"},{"text":"I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["avoid","expect","expectations","listen","listening","meditation","recluse","silence","solitude","speak","speaking","talk","talking","tendency"],"id":222525,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.","author":"Craig Groeschel","tags":["a","about","and","beleive","drift","habitual","have","into","keeping","life","on","recognize","sin","someone","speaking","tendency","the","things","this","to","track","with","without","you","your","yourself"],"id":241376,"author_id":"Craig+Groeschel"},{"text":"I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ego","egocentric","generosity","generous","give","giving","greed","greedy","habit","habitual","miser","miserly","narcissistic","natural","nature","sacrifice","sacrificial","self-centered","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","tendency"],"id":250823,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["belief","denounce","excuse","false","fatuous","ignorant","morons","natural","reconcile","religion","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","tendency","truth"],"id":256173,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"The word 'frustration' is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one's destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size... You were not created to settle for less!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","condemn","define","destiny","don-t-settle-for-less","failing","failure","food-for-thought","frustrate","frustrated","frustrates","frustration","grow-up","israelmore-ayivor","less","lessen","lessening","rise","settle","size","small","small-size","squeeze","stop-condemning-yourself","success","successful","tendency","unfortunate","unfortunately","up","wise-up","word"],"id":298030,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["appearance","big-boned","chubby","fat","looks","obese","obesity","overweight","poor","poverty","poverty-stricken","rich","tendency","victim","victims","wealth","wealthy"],"id":385762,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}