Tended Quotes

#1. He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple.

Jean Thompson

#2. You're worried about your mother dying, aren't you," Leah said, putting her cheek on my forearm. "I can tell."
For a moment I hesitated, but I could hear the call for intimacy in her voice, the desire for me to let her enter those grottoes where I tended my own fear of my mother's illness.

Pat Conroy

#3. I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

David Bowie

#4. Marriage is something to be cherished. It should be tended like a precious garden.

DeBorrah K. Ogans

#5. Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

Steve Carell

#6. Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

George Martin

#7. These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves indispensible.

Miriam Karmel

#8. He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose.

Frank Herbert

#9. I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

Gillian Flynn

#10. What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern.
Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Good luck tended to avoid me. Charlie left first, off to the police station that was his wife and family.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

Hal Holbrook

#13. Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

Sheena Easton

#14. It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

James Patterson

#15. But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

Bob Schieffer

#16. What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

Kate Bush

#17. As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

Brian Krzanich

#18. I don't think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It's just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get translated sort of promptly into a, ah, course of action. So we have tended to bypass the meditative circuit."
"Wow," Hawk said.

Robert B. Parker

#19. Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it.
Even when something didn't.

Megan Hart

#20. The ritual of families watching TV together passed into antiquity around the time I was my son's age; that was when households tended to have a single television and when the choices of what to watch were manageable.

Steve Erickson

#21. The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.

Charles Bukowski

#22. An atmosphere ultraviolet rays from the sun, even from a weak sun, would have tended to break apart any incipient bonds made by molecules. And yet right there" - she tapped the stromatolites - "you have organisms almost at the surface. It's a puzzle.

Bill Bryson

#23. One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.

Ruth Downie

#24. We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

Bob Ainsworth

#25. Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

H.W. Brands

#26. He was kind of like a big puppy dog that just wanted to be loved but tended to hump your leg to get your attention.

Kathleen Brooks

#27. People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.

Alex Steffen

#28. When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop.

Alex Goot

#29. I tended bar and fucked hot tourists, it's what I did.

Jasmine Wilder

#30. Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

J.R. Moehringer

#31. People tended to shop and frequent restaurants in their comfort-zone.

J.D. Robb

#32. I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.

DJ Spooky

#33. William glanced at the captain. The way she sat suggested she was tense - and that she disliked the princess on sight. William wasn't sure why, but he knew that women tended to pick up on subtle points men missed. Or maybe she just felt dowdy when compared to the princess.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#34. I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

Christopher Walken

#35. But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.

Kimberly Novosel

#36. Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

Harold Bloom

#37. Apologies tended to give him migraines, which was why he avoided them. (Eoin)

Annie Nicholas

#38. The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.

Terry Pratchett

#39. A superhero spliced criminals from victims. In Gowanus things tended to be more mixed up.

Jonathan Lethem

#40. I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

Chad Harbach

#41. Those types of people tended to underestimate the tenacity of the well and truly fucked up individuals of this world.

Wildbow

#42. My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

Peter Hook

#43. The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends

Anne Stuart

#44. I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

Morgan Matson

#45. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world.

Yuval Noah Harari

#46. Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

#47. I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.

Ridley Scott

#48. Most people considered options a good thing, the American way, but one tended to squander those choices, or to choose badly, and then to call a bad outcome fate, as if the choices made had nothing to do with it.

Scott Lasser

#49. 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

#50. Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

Henry Adams

#51. I've tended to play the outcast. I don't know, more nerdy types.

Tina Majorino

#52. We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.

Lloyd Dorfman

#53. But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.

Jim Cantalupo

#54. He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

Michael Chabon

#55. The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.

Alexander McCall Smith

#56. Truth is firmly planted in the ground;
it will grow tended or unattended to.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#57. It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Richard M. Weaver

#58. You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I would have thought.. I don't see any reason why that should suddenly disappear now that he has control of both houses.

Chris Corrigan

#59. If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Jean De La Fontaine

#60. France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

Francois Hollande

#61. We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

Adrienne Rich

#62. When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.

Merrill Markoe

#63. In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.

Karin Slaughter

#64. The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides news.

Tom Wolfe

#65. Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Marshall McLuhan

#66. Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

Susan Sontag

#67. Good luck tended to avoid me.

Stephenie Meyer

#68. Gardens don't grow by themselves; they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.

Billy Graham

#69. 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 youth.

Thelma Golden

#70. He'd never much cared for the need to believe one people were better than another. One on one, most of them seemed all right. It was only when you gathered any of them in groups they tended to be stupid.

Jonathan Maberry

#71. Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.

Terry Pratchett

#72. He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

Saffron Burrows

#73. A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

Dave Davies

#74. Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

Margaret Fuller

#75. Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Jack Kornfield

#76. It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

Rick Riordan

#77. He avoided stepping on the plants - though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.

Brandon Sanderson

#78. My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Joan Didion

#79. Everything," a journalist observed, "tended to represent the home of a man who has battled hard with the fortunes of life, and whose hard experience had taught him to enjoy whatever of success belongs to him, rather in solid substance than in showy display.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#80. They tended to be stolid, slovenly, heavy, and to my eyes effeminate - not in the sense of delicacy, etc., but in just the opposite sense: a gross, bland fleshiness, a bovinity without point or edge.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#81. If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#82. There was just something very crystalizing about bullets whining over your head; it tended to put questions of morality in perspective.

Evan Currie

#83. I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Hunter S. Thompson

#84. But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

James Dashner

#85. In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Steve Kangas

#86. Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in; those tended not to have happy endings.

Deborah Blake

#87. Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

Tadashi Yanai

#88. I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.

Patricia Cornwell

#89. 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 predict the future on that.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

#90. I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.

Max Barry

#91. Eventually the girl would discover that sadists tended to be politer than regular Doms - at least, when not in a scene. After all, if a sadist was nasty, then how would he get anyone to play with him?

Cherise Sinclair

#92. Alice wonders if anyone has ever tended Jill, in any way, and if her intelligent ferocity is what happens when a girl has had to teach herself how to be human.

Kate Racculia

#93. He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

Stephen L. Carter

#94. Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

Rick Riordan

#95. Under stress, women tended to cry it away. Men tended to get angry and lash out.

Craig Alanson

#96. The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

Frank Rich

#97. The grass is greener on the other side because someone tended to it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#98. Today, teachers tend to look for their students' intellectual strengths, so they can cultivate them. But a century ago, professors tended to look for their students' moral weaknesses, so they could correct them.

David Brooks

#99. Lord, save him from those with good intentions, for they tended to leave the worst damage.

J. Fally

#100. Humans tended to use the terms free and freedom to indicate states of being that were anything but.

Robert Repino