#tendency

I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. ↗

— Peter Hain

#always #asked #back #been #forward

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#been #childhood #ever #genetic #had

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#chain #cheap #deprive #efforts #factories

Jews have a tendency to become comedians. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#comedians #jews #tendency

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #mediocrity #tendency #things

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#bad #eyes #fresh #get #seen

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#get #get married #hang #hang in there #hanging

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#clear #finite #going #long #manageable