#tend

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#exist #female #i #lean #make

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.' ↗

— Rob Portman

#code #comes #congress #current #deal

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #diminish #early #early work #foreground

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beginnings #come #constitutes #contending #deeply

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#entirely #even #glad #gloom #heart

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#i #kick #like #rattle #tendency

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #because #borrow #buy #community

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. ↗

— Richard Powers

#determine #itself #never #should #technology

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#family #liberals #put #society #success