#tendency

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

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#could #i #into #like #meet

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

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#come #couple #doing #feel #filmmaking

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

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#badge #cia #clarke #criticism #had

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#gentler #gotten #had #i #kindness

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

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#actively #advance #behind #body #christianity