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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
[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
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
But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.
— Kimberly Novosel
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
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
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
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
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
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
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
— Tanith Lee
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
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
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
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
— Frederick Law Olmsted
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
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