#tend

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#fog #grotesque #kind #larger #like

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

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

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#comic #emotion #feel #film #films

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#author #burden #combine #musical #tend

I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#attend #every #i #i am #session

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

#court #different #five #intended #law

And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive. ↗

— Peter Hook

#drive #fast #how #i #like

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. ↗

— Dan Millman

#devil #energy #form #god #greedy