#tend

Don't become a puppet to other peoples desires, live and create your life as you intend it to be. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#desires #intend #life #live #puppet

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #everyone #i #i do #like

To do no evil is good, to intend none better. ↗

— Claudius

#evil #good #intend #none

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#kitty-foyle #pretending #life

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#day #material #materialism #philosophy #present

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

#colleagues #democratic #democratic leaders #every #given

Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#hair #love #tenderness #tucker #love

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped. Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future. ↗

— Robyn Donald

#poetry #tenderness #romantic