#tended

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dealing #death #difficult #difficult things #disease

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#assemblies #assembly #debates #democratic #dragged

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read. ↗

— Chris Ware

#cartoons #drawings #intended #read #real

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anything #blindly #consequences #creating #failing

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

I never intended to only do dark, serious things. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#i #intended #never #only #serious

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#attended #dad #encouraged #forever #germany

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit. ↗

— Gary Allan

#becomes #best #bit #challenge #each

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.' ↗

— Mary Astell

#does #given #god #had #intended

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#companies #done #fast-growing #gets #i