Best Tended Wisdom
220 Tended quotes by 199 unique authors
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Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,…
— Jacques Ellul
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When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at…
— Unknown Author
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As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my…
— Thelma Golden
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Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very…
— Amanda Tapping
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
— Hanna Rosin
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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there…
— Bono
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Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to…
— Catherine Martin
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and…
— Prince Charles
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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After…
— Brendan I. Koerner
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People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I…
— Katie Chang
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Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
— David Christian
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Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to…
— Jeremiah P. Ostriker
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An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is…
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
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I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at the other end…
— Brad Paisley
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Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I…
— Hannah Murray
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I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher…
— Sullivan Stapleton
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I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with…
— Keahu Kahuanui
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During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.
— Buzz Aldrin
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I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I…
— Melissa Marr
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Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended…
— Andrew Pyper
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Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact that they also tended to…
— George Kaiser
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Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about school.…
— Susan Shreve
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Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
— Tadashi Yanai
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It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of…
— Paul Di Filippo
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