Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.
On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!
Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.
All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
