#tend

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#hear #i #nearby #pretend #shotgun

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. ↗

— David Hare

#civilization #tendency #towards #ultimate

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#men #men and women #must #pretend #valuable

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#forget #people #playing #stop #tend

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#chance #even #get #giving #had

These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#balanced diet #date #days #diet #exercise

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#bank #cutting #cutting edge #edge #large

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation. ↗

— Raul Julia

#life #meditation #only #tend #think

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy. ↗

— Jonathan Klein

#best way #does #evidence #interventions #keep