Tend Quotes

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.