#tended

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#catch #down #english #had #hit

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#become #get #intended #man #moment

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#advance #age #attended #born #count

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#africa #american #enter #even #fact

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. ↗

— Major Taylor

#been #careers #clean #clean living #exertion

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#around #businesses #diversified #each #had

I've never attended any Tea Party functions. ↗

— John Bolton

#attended #functions #i #never #party

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#camera #cutting #down #everybody #front