We Tend Quotes
342 We Tend quotes by 282 unique authors
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Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then…
— Diane Setterfield
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We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.
— Paulo Coelho
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In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most…
— S I Hayakawa
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re…
— Carl Sagan
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We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why…
— Sharon Kay Penman
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually…
— Diane Ackerman
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When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.
— Julia Glass
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing…
— Oswald Chambers
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We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical…
— Philip Yancey
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When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has…
— Milan Kundera
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We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory…
— Robertson Davies
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If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our…
— Mitch Albom
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each…
— John Ortberg
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Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.
— John Flanagan
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At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing…
— Shonda Rhimes
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Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who…
— Stephen Dobyns
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One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location…
— Katrina Kenison
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All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to…
— Dennis Prager
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The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person.…
— M. Scott Peck
Who Wrote These We Tend Quotes
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