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My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. — Auberon Waugh

People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions. — Isaac Asimov

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit. — Sarah Weeks

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated. — Frank Bruni

She was a danger to his hard-earned neutrality. Thinking about her tended to give him an unwanted hitch in his lungs. — Marissa Meyer

And then the queen felt that she might as well make all talking illegal, because almost every conflict tended to start with someone saying something. — Fredrik Backman

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself. — Buzz Aldrin

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning. — Amanda Hocking

The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. — Michel Faber

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. — David Sedaris

History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different? — Kayla Krantz

But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me. — Kimberly Novosel

I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background. — Ben Whishaw

A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion. — J.D. Robb

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS. — Douglas Wilson

There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies. — Karen Russell

Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort. — Anodea Judith

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable. — H.W. Brands

As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning? — Michael Chabon

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. — Linus Torvalds

And she also enjoyed a conversation on public questions which tended to take place in the parlour of the shop — Charles Moore

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin

Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed. — Patrick Shade

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. How come I never get invited on these violent trips? — Rick Riordan

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable — John Flanagan

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. — Steve Kangas

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind
is to be crazy, not healthy. — Michael Ventura

Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world. — Yuval Noah Harari

I've tended to play the outcast. I don't know, more nerdy types. — Tina Majorino

Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine. — Karen White

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done. — Jim Barksdale

As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it. — Brian Krzanich

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings. — Hannah Murray

Humans tended to use the terms free and freedom to indicate states of being that were anything but. — Robert Repino

Change is not a one-time explosion of opportunity. It is a slow burning fire that needs to be tended constantly. — Jason Harvey

He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors. — Terry Pratchett

Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended. — Huston Smith

He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple. — Jean Thompson

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud. — Sam Worthington

A well-tended garden will flourish. — Malva Freymuth Tarasewicz

Under stress, women tended to cry it away. Men tended to get angry and lash out. — Craig Alanson

and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated — Walter Isaacson

Good luck tended to avoid me. — Stephenie Meyer

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run. — Aziz Ansari

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. — Becca Fitzpatrick

They could be trained and tended. But they were of the wild, and the wild they needed for their spirit. — Nora Roberts

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. — Dixie Lee Ray

Lord, save him from those with good intentions, for they tended to leave the worst damage. — J. Fally

Overall, compassionate people tended to be healthier, happier, more popular, and more successful at work. Most — Dan Harris

I've always tended to write songs prolifically. — David Bowie

They tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. — Ilona Andrews

I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had. — Patricia Cornwell

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary. — Jeff VanderMeer

She knew he would like taking it off; he tended to prefer her dresses on the floor rather than on her person. — Maya Rodale

I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it. — Keahu Kahuanui

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life. — Margaret Fuller

Most folks probably think that gardens only get tended when they're blooming. But most folks would be wrong. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. — Joan Didion

Good luck tended to avoid me. Charlie left first, off to the police station that was his wife and family. — Stephenie Meyer

...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of 'goin' doololly. — E.J. Stevens

But practicalities have to be tended to, even during emergencies. — Jean Ferris

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. — Libba Bray

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. — John Searle

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders. — Amanda Ripley

I'd sworn off men, or really boys, because those were the only type of males I tended to attract. — Alyssa Rose Ivy

Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece ... — Peter Green

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee

Conversation over coffee tended to be candid and invited confidences. — Joanne Fluke

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley

He was kind of like a big puppy dog that just wanted to be loved but tended to hump your leg to get your attention. — Kathleen Brooks

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule. — John Piper

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful. — Harold Bloom

The relationship between my brain and my mouth tended to be casual at best. — Rob Thurman

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role. — Dinah Sheridan

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal. — Woody Allen

Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly. — Asne Seierstad

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. — Thelma Golden

In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. — James S.A. Corey

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them. — Lauren Myracle

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat. — Raymond L. Atkins

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past. — Joseph M. Juran

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5. — Jack Kilby

didn't have a filter either. I tended to say what I was thinking without thinking. — L.A. Casey

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted

Apologies tended to give him migraines, which was why he avoided them. (Eoin) — Annie Nicholas

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. — Joseph Heller

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. — Edward Gibbon

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself. — Hal Holbrook

For now, bread and mead call us, appetites whetted, to witness what I have been nursing, encased in iron, licked by flame, and tended with relish. — Kevin Hearne

Many have doubts; few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all. — Sandra Byrd

In London, I tended to hang with the fallen. — Ken Bruen

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do. — Hugh Jackman

Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to — Stephen Batchelor

The waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended. — Julia Child

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. — Ron Suskind

When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you. — Gwyneth Lewis