Tend Quotes

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.

You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.