Quotes of: Tending Keyword

'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

Nigella Lawson

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

Les Claypool

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

James A. Baldwin

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

Tina Brown

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'

Christian Louboutin

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

Ed Stoppard

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

Karan Johar

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

Robert Kiyosaki

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

Ross MacDonald

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Richard Louv

I think it's natural for anyone that participates in a public debate to advocate for the most extreme version that they can, particularly if they believe that government tends to compromise.

Julius Genachowski

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

Orhan Pamuk

I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.

Patricia Richardson

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

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

Hunter S. Thompson

History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.

Jason Kilar

Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

Tom Hodgkinson

The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Grant Morrison

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan