Tend Quotes

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.