Tends Quotes

707 quotes by 611 authors

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to… — Paul Auster
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to… — Margaret Atwood
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What… — Christian Bale
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. — Hosea Ballou
As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related. — Eric Bana
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined,… — Andre Breton
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished… — Anita Brookner
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice… — Alton Brown
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. — Deepak Chopra
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why. — Amy Chua
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque… — Carl von Clausewitz
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect… — Thomas Aquinas
This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this… — John Nelson Darby
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will… — Alex Faickney Osborn
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton

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