Tend Quotes

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.