Top 495 Tend Quotes

Largely this is a class thing – writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it – being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts – it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can’t just live in my head.

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities – New York, San Francisco – or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time – Detroit, Newark, Camden.

When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

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.

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld’s famous aphorism that ‘Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,’ and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest – or costliest – of sins.

People tend to think I lack focus. This is probably something they conclude from my trendy dressing style or my hair color. They forget my wins. I guess it’s easy to forget.

I think French women tend to keep it simple. I’d say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.

If there’s been a crisis in a market, you don’t tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren’t in the system anymore.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that’s why I tend to just jump into things. I’m sort of a fearless idiot that way.

The art world’s quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.

And they do tend to be fast and up, because that’s how I like to drive.

The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide – or, really, any other genocide – and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it’s important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.

If I’m at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years. It’s weird.

We tend to get what we expect.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.

When you look at golf films before us they’re all – garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can’t beat him.

Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

I’m one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It’s a harrowing moment when you’re confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

I don’t know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric – they can behave the way they want.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn’t be.

We have our little restaurants, and there’s a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it’s at my house, we order pizza because I can’t cook.

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it’s the opposite in swimming because your body can’t handle the endurance.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let’s get out of here.

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.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it’s much more effective and much more efficient.

I’m not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don’t tend to look at.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don’t already exist out there.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn’t be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don’t have families. They don’t clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

You tend to regret the things you haven’t done.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.