#tend

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ↗

— George Eliot

#ease #ill #indifference #love #return

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#ever #forget #get #hand #i

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#cry #feelings #men #only #own

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#crooked #different #god #having #lead

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #bush #control #crowd #day

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#because #book #got #long #long book

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #break #challenger #change #close

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys. ↗

— Megan Fox

#guys #i #like #nerdy #reason