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220 Tended quotes by 199 unique authors
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Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to…
— Julia Child
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One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it…
— Tom Robbins
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An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way…
— Iain Banks
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But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.
— James Dashner
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Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the…
— Lisa Kleypas
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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…
— Shannon Hale
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I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits…
— Dan Brown
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I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been:…
— Baroness Orczy
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I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make…
— John Newton
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I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.
— Amanda Hocking
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Finn always called it Enna's Stream. He tended to refer to most anything as belonging to her--Enna's Meadow, Enna's Mountain. When he referred to Yasid…
— Shannon Hale
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Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and…
— Paul Celan
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[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories…
— Aldous Huxley
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Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the…
— Paula McLain
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For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at…
— John Berendt
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he…
— Ann Brashares
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...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.
— John Connolly
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Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?
— Rick Riordan
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It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.
— James Patterson
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It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the…
— John Flanagan
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In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that…
— Susan Cain
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Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable
— John Flanagan
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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd…
— Charles Bukowski
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I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall…
— William Henry Hudson
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