#tended

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#always #away #be strong #because #been

Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#become #between #broken #cut #extended

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. ↗

— John Gay

#foe #friend #may #open #pretended

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#either #equate #extended #intrinsic #look

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#days #fall #football #going #i

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. ↗

— John Hawkins

#degree #equal #ever #executed #firmness

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. ↗

— John Thorn

#employment #exile #extended #families #involuntary

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. ↗

— Leon Kass

#effects #many #often #people #recognize

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school. ↗

— John Knowles

#anyone #attended #class #conceivably #crucial

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#beings #cartoons #everybody #human #human beings