#tended

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#ambitious #bird #child #follow #i

The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#american #american people #better #dynamic #failed

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#effect #enough #fiction #film #fixes

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. ↗

— Karl Popper

#intended #neither #nor #only #possible

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#church #evangelists #extended #extended family #family

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic. ↗

— Andy Dick

#before #christian #comic #go #handicapped

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #i think #include #intended #more

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him. ↗

— Ruth Ellis

#i #intended #kill #obvious #shot

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#existence #i #integrated #intended #into

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#believe #build-up #contest #detente #effect