#tend

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#degree #exposed #i #inconveniences #liberty

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

#inferior #intellects #little #may #sign

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#cats #everything #function #intended #nature

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#assumption #because #bladder #contend #difficult

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#becomes #being #eventually #hypocritical #learns

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#avarice #every #fair #foul #gods

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! ↗

— Jonathan King

#acts #alive #being #careers #certain

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. ↗

— Stephen King

#apocalypse #breathed #city #echoes #happened

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#deeply #else #fortunate #gain #had