Top 100 Quotes About Tends
#1. When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
Mike Myers
#2. The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
John Lithgow
#3. Before her lay the enemy. The only end guaranteed if she forgot that fact? Death - or worse. Strangely enough, approval from those who don't even bother to introduce themselves before commenting on my shortcomings ... tends not to make much of an impression on me.
Danielle Monsch
#4. The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
Bob Woodward
#5. A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot of shows that are older works, but often when I do new work for a show, it tends to talk to the space or the idea of the museum.
Ragnar Kjartansson
#6. It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.
Julian Baggini
#7. As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
Peter Jennings
#8. Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.
Tsai Ing-wen
#9. Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
Franz Grillparzer
#10. Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
Timothy Noah
#11. The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.
Paul Goldberger
#12. Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.
Eknath Easwaran
#13. What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest - the inner game runs the outer game.
William A. Adams
#14. I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.
Christopher Nolan
#15. Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
Yann Martel
#16. Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Anne Roiphe
#17. The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
Nicole Kidman
#18. Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.
Nick Cave
#19. I don't know what it is about Ackbar that tends to quash arguments. He has a kind of moist charisma, I guess, that no one wants to challenge. I know I don't want to dispute him, anyway.
Kevin Hearne
#20. Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.
Ernest Holmes
#21. In the midst of our lives we must find the One who tends to our scars, mends our hearts, and heals our souls.
Aisha Mirza
#22. Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Gunter Grass
#23. Love tends to grab a hold of you when you least expect it. The key is to never let it go.
Maureen Mayer
#25. I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
Michael Stipe
#27. I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.
Tim Powers
#28. Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Antonin Scalia
#29. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!
Charles Stross
#30. Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Linus Torvalds
#31. Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
Charles Koch
#32. No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women ... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
Bell Hooks
#33. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Charles Darwin
#34. War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
H.L. Mencken
#35. The Bengali tends to run to brains rather than brawn and does not take kindly to the discipline and order of a hard life; at the same time, he lacks neither courage nor ability, and shines in the higher ranks."
Sir Charles Tegart
Manoshi Bhattacharya
#36. Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.
Kim Ji-woon
#37. I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
Bill James
#38. You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.
Jack Vance
#39. The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.
Jacques Barzun
#40. Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.
Marcus Garvey
#41. Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.
Amit Ray
#42. Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.
Ani DiFranco
#43. All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
Blaise Pascal
#44. Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright
#45. Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.
Judith Lewis Herman
#46. History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.
Mitch Rowland
#47. In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#48. Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
Marie Corelli
#49. Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
Bear Grylls
#50. If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.
Andy Stanley
#51. Funny how being in opposition to something tends to inspire tireless picketing and cleverly worded signs, while support rarely arouses that level of productivity.
Fred Venturini
#53. An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Isaac Newton
#54. Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.
Henry Norman Hudson
#55. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E.F. Schumacher
#56. Then came the choreography ... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.
Peggy Fleming
#57. The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.
Edward Jenks
#58. Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
Charles Platt
#60. The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.
Aaron Koblin
#61. I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#62. The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder ... Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.
Jeffrey Sachs
#63. If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.
Robert Boyle
#64. The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it's a duty preceding been an honour.
Ammar Moussa
#65. Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.
Georges Bataille
#66. As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.
Eric Bana
#67. . . . the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the disorder it tends toward is flammable.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#68. Sympathy, recall, tends to be expressed in communal relationships, the kind that are also accompanied by guilt and forgiveness. Anything that creates a communal relationship, then, should also create sympathy.
Steven Pinker
#69. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson
#71. The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.
Gerald Vann
#72. Money tends to produce more money - when invested right.
Ken McElroy
#73. I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.
Ron Chernow
#74. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
Marshall McLuhan
#75. All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.
Ludwig Von Mises
#76. Whereas a religion of many gods posits many myths to describe the human condition, a religion of one god tends to be monomythic; it not only rejects all other gods, it rejects all other explanations for God.
Reza Aslan
#77. I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#78. In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.
Xenophon
#79. When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.
Blake Crouch
#80. We are here for a short time, so live a life of love and kindness, which tends to live long.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
Frederick Lenz
#82. Japanese animation tends to need high budgets. If I have a high budget for a movie, I usually make animation, but if the project has a low budget, then I would ask the producer to consider live action.
Mamoru Oshii
#83. Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust ... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers ...
John Wesley
#84. War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
William Ellery Channing
#85. The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
Mary Cheney
#86. The dualistic mind tends to think of mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but mu is found throughout all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat,
Robert M. Pirsig
#87. What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.
Joseph Brodsky
#88. If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.
Eric Nicol
#89. Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.
Dean Williams
#90. Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
Alan Alda
#91. It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.
Dave Barry
#92. I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
Brandon Stanton
#93. Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#94. The inward working of God's goodness tends to produce an uncontrollable wildfire when He takes the helm of clinical, religious sobriety - when He turns our water into wine.
John Crowder
#95. A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an upright position can confirm a sense of self-possession and a quality of engagement.
Amor Towles
#96. In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#97. Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.
Chris Matthews
#98. The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live a life of greater purity, sanctification and holiness when under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit.
Dag Heward-Mills
#99. Rich in odor-producing sulfides, the meaty poop of carnivores tends to smell horrendous. As for their herbivore prey? A high-fiber, leafy diet exits the body without making much of a stink.
Deuce Flanagan
#100. My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge.
Robert Ryman
