Tends Quotes (page 13)

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• crazy
• persistence
• bear

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate. Tom Robbins

• focus
• betrayal
• people

For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice. Vincent Bugliosi

• science
• question
• answering

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. David Sedaris

• friends
• friend
• weird

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. James Patterson

• people
• enemy
• nasty

Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it. Terry Prachett

• life
• personality
• personal

If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Ann Patchett

• humanity
• diversity
• reasonably

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• running
• mind
• mindfulness

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

• country
• night
• commitment

your book is full of piquant ideas on how sexual assault is practiced by many people but in African countries the issue is pressurized by females themselves as they tend to dress on night attires as a result males are piquant ed to commit an offense Nicholas D. Kristof

• job
• bear
• girls

Of the little less than a million eligibles roaming around, 5 percent don't know their sign and don't even care. Another 5 percent are tied to their mothers by a food fixation. That leaves only 20 percent who are searching for a girl who will pick up their clothes, run their baths, burn her fingers shelling their three-minute eggs, run their errands, bear them a child every year, look like a fashion model, tend their needs when they are sick, and hold down a full-time job outside the home... Erma Bombeck

• thinking
• dark
• greatness

Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to war. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: we have to abide their outcome in the dark. And when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think. Thucydides

• fear
• eating
• facing fear

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti. Mark Helprin

• life
• work
• end

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

• see
• tend
• tools

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow

• manly
• thinking
• greatness

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand Russell