Quotes of: Tend Keyword

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Killosophy

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Spook Country

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Not Dying: An Autobiographical Interlude

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Obsidian

People tend to resist a change into something new and different. But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

Midnight Cactus

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

Silas Marner

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, until it stops beating. Getting ripped out of the chest tends to have that effect.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Saturday

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

The Sweet Far Thing

it's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds

Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems: Collected Poems, 1950-1962

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Proust

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

Wall Around Your Heart

Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

Cheryl James

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

Gretchen Rubin