Tends Quotes


Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men or dying white men.

History tends to play games with the truth but at least it does so with a flourish.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

Any thought which tends to inspire to comfort and to give peace to the mind is good.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions the funding base tends to be quite localized.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

This ocean circulation a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound tends to go through multi-decadal changes

Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary when in fact something extraordinary is taking place.

Reality... includes a perceiver who has memories thoughts desires emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet we find that family size tends to drop.

the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens

Who knows whence he comes where he is and whither he tends he and he alone is wise.

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art it tends to be kind of tiresome.

Fiction on the whole and if it is any good tends to be a subversive element in society.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do it tends to be lightweight stuff.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I've been set afire.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order as if order were an imperative of human existence.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

Cursed be the verse how well so e'er it flow That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

I think especially when you're in college each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Since survival is the sine qua non I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Any important disease whose causality is murky and for which treatment is ineffectual tends to be awash in significance.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is after that everything tends towards guesswork.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough the fear of change tends to be very acute.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

History shows that male homosexuality which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized always tends toward decadence.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

For me writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive organic thing which tends to happen more by accident than design.

The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

In the United States revolts tends to be directed against specific situations rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights fear tends to be the order of the day

A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

As you experience love and relationships you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there content-wise it's very light. In India theatre tends to get preachy.

Every business is there to make money and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

A large retinue upon a small income like a large cascade upon a small stream tends to discover its tenuity.

Expertise is great but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Since the universe is stupid it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support promote and finance the evolution of fools.

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done but the frog tends to die in the process.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was it was just a problem nothing to fear.

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

In my experience writing a novel tends to create its own structure its own demands its own language its own ending.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and if my girlfriend's driving it tends to be Hall & Oates.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity it's essence tends to become creativity.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated unlike poetry which is more equal.

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

It will be said however that protection tends to destroy commerce the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse however is the fact.

Superman tends to stand very upright and he's very symmetrical and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of and away from yourself.

In my experience it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect too sweet or too agreeable he tends to become bored very quickly.

I have a hyper-active imagination my mind tends to jump around a little and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

Chinese language tends to be quick economical. To know what people are saying you always need to know what the context is.

The possession of a great many things even the best of things tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.

If you do not start with the idea you are creating fine art - its personal but it tends not to communicate.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed but cannot be enforced and tends to create more evils than it cures.

One law of energy is this: energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality and vibration.

A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.

Anger and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Once evolution gets a good basic design it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

Everything right now tends to be the same and very aggressive and I think people are getting a little burned out on it.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths it can be disastrous.

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.

I don't get recognized all the time but it tends to happen more in America and people are so lovely when they do.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse or ugly or mean.

Without knowledge and understanding one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline quality assurance tends to go out the window.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

Being born in New York City tends to lead to big expectations expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

Every man's work pursued steadily tends to become an end in itself and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone

I would suggest that gluten tends to be tied to carbs. And I try to balance my carbs and my proteins and my fats.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas not as commercial product - tends to live the university system is remarkably innovative.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills and to the person for whom one wills it.

All discussion all debate all dissidence tends to question and in consequence to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context so they stay alive stay relevant.

Software tends not to kill people and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

When the sex is persuasively rendered it tends to read autobiographically and there are limits to my desire for immersion in a stranger's biochemistry.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed and out of it emerges a much leaner industry which tends to survive.

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC Def Leppard Tesla Kiss. Metal tends to be louder ruder darker like Judas Priest Slayer Iron Maiden.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times and tends to measure time with a yardstick bit by bit from one point to another.

Naked power has its limitations since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn't encouraged?it is barely tolerated.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

Music will save your life but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way I understand.

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge but it is open to civilians.

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities and praise given to wit valour and beauty tends to increase them.

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

The poet the artist the sleuth whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted ' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my case it did.

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

I do read on holiday but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

History in a democratic age tends to become a series of popular apologies and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

I think that there is something in the human psyche that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

The constant need to move on and to document progress in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task..

Rumination tends to be eased if we learn to be mindful; if we are able to be aware of and understand how our own thoughts work.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

There is something I have learned since being paralyzed and that is that in the absence of sensory information the imagination always tends to the grotesque.

If you do good work it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say ''The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

My writing tends to become very dense so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.

When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Usage tends to be global while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds however leave scars.

A movie tends to box you in at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience which is the joy of cinema.

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.

When you're young there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older the list tends to get shorter.

Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Raising the minimum wage as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Art tends toward balance order judgment of relative values the laws of growth the economy of living "? very good things for anyone to be interested in.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture which tends to be very slow accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

I recommend Batman especially for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid also. I rather respect Batman.

I am a musician before a writer and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that which I do my work tends to suffer.

I'm thirty-four.You don't look thirty-four.That's because I'm not married. Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. Marriage tends to age a woman.

When a long-term trend loses it's momentum short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting like music tends to become its own content.

I love Clinique. Their moisturizer is amazing. My skin tends to be really oily but then at times I'm dry and that's the perfect amount of moisturizer.

I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose whatever tends to reflect where I am as a human being.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets volatility tends to gradually decline.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats " it confided "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

When you are aligned with the now internally when you take responsibility for this moment then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult the more I want to call it into question.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight fitted along a wide landscape of fact it often loses its brilliance.

My taste tends to skew a little bit towards the more feminine. Monique Lhuillier Oscar de la Renta. Some of his wedding dresses in particular have been spectacular.

Disasters occur organically in my work in that that's the way my thinking tends more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is "Somebody has to pay for lunch.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

In spite of unseasonable wind snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name which tends to discourage the young students.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

I'm an owner that tends to absolutely be supportive of a coach and his vision if it's a real sharp and smart vision. I really believe in that.

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength it tends to no longer be a weakness.

The world under heaven after a long period of division tends to unite; after a long period of union tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know most of it's up until you reach the very very top and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

Learning of all kinds goes on best lasts best and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do see and say in the sway of its cosmos an archetype is best comparable with a God

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas and this is about people.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Generally I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7 000 to 8 000 fans for each team.

If what a person wants is his life he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure one feels the freedom to complain.

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the best.

Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character and that's something we must work to change.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish but it's certainly present in the early work.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment be it troubled or blithe peaceful or stormy is the true native and permanent tenor of his existence.

I.Don't trace out your profile--forget your side view--all that is outer stuff.II.Look for your other halfwho walks always next to youand tends to be who you aren't.

I do have a family and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner everybody tends to look at the guy even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age it tends to get categorized and labeled and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

My architecture tends to be legible light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

All action takes place so to speak in a kind of twilight which like a fog or moonlight often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for like anybody else I like something that tends to last.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

The more a book is like an opium pipe the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older you play this game for 82 games a year and you play 11 or 12 years your body tends to break down.

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time which tends to come from the palette of black grey or red.

Resolved never to do any manner of thing whether in soul or body less or more but what tends to the glory of God; nor be nor suffer it if I can avoid it.

War may make a fool of man but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary it tends to exalt him and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money and that once you've got it it tends to grow all by itself like a fire.

Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it the better it becomes.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school which tends to take the edge off it.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook to shape itself to meet our expectations.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that among all the quiz and game shows out there ours tends to encourage learning.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

Thought tends to collect in pools.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

Historical tends to be my bailiwick.

Chaos when left alone tends to multiply.

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

Data that is loved tends to survive.

One tends to write beyond what's needed

Quality tends to fan out like waves.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering even amnesia.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

All weakness tends to corrupt and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

If one devalues rationality the world tends to fall apart.

Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.

If you educate women family size tends to go down.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy America democracy over stability.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.

Wealth tends to create enemies whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Without wisdom power tends to destroy the one who wields it.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

As a journalist one tends to think there's nothing off limits

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

Money tends to make people suspicious if there's any money floating around.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.

Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.

Before the truth sets you free it tends to make you miserable.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Nature when left to universal laws tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).

Caution is the daughter of circumspection but she tends to outgrow her mother.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Whereas for me touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

No matter what you do black lace tends to look a little Spanish.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

I have always loved solitude a trait which tends to increase with age.

When you see period films it tends to often be with older actors.

Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends

If you had an essentially happy childhood that tends to dwell with you.

When male authors write love stories the heroine tends to end up dead.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

The more self-aware an animal is the more empathetic it tends to be.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure needy people.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP economic growth tends to decline considerably.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic but ethical

With all things being equal the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.

Orphan Black' tends to for their auditions shroud it in secrecy and change names.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy which is the biggest problem in my life.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority which is always asking why why why.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs their first reaction tends to be fear.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends Plenty as well as Want can sep'rate friends.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs their first reaction tends to be fear.

The sole art that suits me is that which rising from unrest tends toward serenity.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Reality like God and History tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it's full course.

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

In individuals as in nations contentment is silent which tends to unbalance the historical record.

If war is glorified it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

If one does not understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool.

As a sex women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food and I love feeding people.

We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.

The relief that is afforded to mere want as want tends to increase that want.

What man does not understand he fears; and what he fears he tends to destroy.

The more a thing tends to be permanent the more it tends to be lifeless.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

In any country corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me Lady you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.

Once a man is on hand a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

You look older." "Yes well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

As life tends to become more and more distracting let us firmly hold on to books.

There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions which often gets ignored.

The more that each of us tends our own soul the more the world will prosper.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

In general corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend or something to sell.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.