Tends Quotes

707 quotes by 598 authors

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. — Colm Toibin
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.… — Edward Abbey
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear… — Douglas Adams
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it… — Terry Pratchett
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living â€“ very good things for anyone to be… — Robert Henri
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle… — Diane Setterfield
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic… — Herbert Marcuse
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as… — Douglas Adams
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy… — Frank Herbert
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely… — David Foster Wallace
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because… — Theodore Kaczynski
A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys… — C.S. Lewis
I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing… — Robin Wasserman
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all… — Thomas Jefferson
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce… — Junot Diaz

Who Wrote These Tends Quotes

598 authors contributed a total of 707 Tends Quotes, led by these top contributors: