Quotes of: Tend Keyword

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

The Dosadi Experiment

When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.

The Dead of Summer

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

Gilead

Kids, don’t trust any radical under twenty-five. His cock tends to get in the way of his political vision

The Garbageman

Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Borges and the Eternal Orangutans

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

Jesse Eisenberg

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

Timothy Garton Ash

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Gloria Steinem

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

Roger Daltrey

We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.

Ranbir Kapoor

I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

Rachael Taylor

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

Andrew Pyper

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

Ron Eglash

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Richard Rogers

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

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

Austenland

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

The Heart Specialist