#tendency

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#claim #ends #fanaticism #god #our

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean. ↗

— Brad Thor

#beginning #clean #crisp #description #far

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#i #kick #like #rattle #tendency

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #because #borrow #buy #community

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on. ↗

— John Malkovich

#been #convinced #go #i #life

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#eyesight #fallen #faulty #four #life

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dark side #i #side #sometimes #tendency

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#balances #certain #checks #disturbing #government

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. ↗

— John Bolton

#generals #last #like #politicians #tendency

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#choices #i #information #limited #lucky