Best They Tend Words
190 They Tend quotes by 174 unique authors
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When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
— Tony Robbins
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Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became…
— Gus Van Sant
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
— John Travolta
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People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
— Helen McCrory
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Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become…
— Greg Mortenson
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But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely…
— J D Salinger
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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
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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day…
— H. L. Mencken
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Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.…
— Terry Eagleton
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When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
— Sherwood Smith
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A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
— Will Christopher Baer
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Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
— Gretchen Rubin
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We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally wouldn’t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort…
— Donald Miller
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My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely…
— Robin McKinley
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It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must…
— Terry Pratchett
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Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
— Bell Hooks
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first…
— Richard Dawkins
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If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.
— Gail Caldwell
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I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world…
— Kevin Hearne
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Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend…
— Richard Rohr
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