#towards

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. ↗

— Barney Frank

#biased #cannot #cause #characterize #committed

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bear #beings #cent #constantly #down

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#intimacy #life #person #private #private life

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#army #bit #career #drawn #father

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm. ↗

— Kevin Garnett

#direction #done #head #i #i think

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love. ↗

— Richard Gere

#common #compassion #kindness #lean #love

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#being #cockroach #feel #gross #human

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. ↗

— James Laughlin

#agree #always #attention #bad #bad thing

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#darker #draws #emotion #emotions #expressing