#tend

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. ↗

— John Clayton

#christ #create #emphasis #ethnic #legal

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#child #common #constantly #grow #i

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#along #any #great #hardly #i

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#authors #body #building #clear #extending

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#bad idea #hire #i #idea #maybe

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. ↗

— Donald Norman

#decide #i #i think #measurable #measure

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#anybody #anywhere #difficult #does #fits

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

#big #big deal #books #deal #even

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in. ↗

— George Murray

#i #i do #naturally #obviously #stay