#tend

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#agent #later #no problem #orange #pentagon

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#attending #birthday #concerts #conducting #dropping

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#had #i #like #long #long periods

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#candidates #give #males #only #percent

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#anybody #else #father #feet #felt

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#designation #does #dr #earthquakes #extending

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#audience #concerts #encores #father #happening

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. ↗

— Elihu Root

#countries #country #declaring #everything #extreme

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

#certainly #first #hear #hearing #i

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. ↗

— Robert Bly

#tenderness #humans