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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

Those types of people tended to underestimate the tenacity of the well and truly fucked up individuals of this world. — Wildbow

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

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle. — Peter Hook

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

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

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

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

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book. — Cherie Priest

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

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

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable — John Flanagan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Years of having your appearance poked at tended to make you quite insecure with the opposite sex. — Karina Halle

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. — James Dashner

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence. — Upton Sinclair

Truth is firmly planted in the ground;
it will grow tended or unattended to. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question. — Grace Hopper

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. — Neil Gaiman

The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides news. — Tom Wolfe

Marriage is something to be cherished. It should be tended like a precious garden. — DeBorrah K. Ogans

(A writer's working space, Montaigne also believed, ought to have a good view of the cemetery; it tended to sharpen one's thinking.) — Oliver Burkeman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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