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Good luck tended to avoid me. -- Stephenie Meyer
When tended the right way, beauty multiplies. -- Shannon Wiersbitzky
Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable -- John Flanagan
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. -- Woody Allen
Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed. -- Patrick Shade
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot -- Dixie Lee Ray
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. -- Dixie Lee Ray
And people tended not to bother a woman with a book. -- Cherie Priest
My donors have always tended to do much better than expected. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role -- Dinah
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role. -- Dinah Sheridan
I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself. -- Hal Holbrook
History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat. -- Raymond L. Atkins
We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question. -- Grace Hopper
I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning. -- Amanda Hocking
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. -- Ron Suskind
Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece... -- Peter Green
Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort. -- Anodea Judith
I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies. -- Karen Russell
I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done. -- James L. Barksdale
I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done. -- James L. Barksdale
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. -- David Antin
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. -- Joan Didion
During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself. -- Buzz Aldrin
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard. -- Christopher Morley
Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders. -- Amanda Ripley
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. -- Marshall McLuhan
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice. -- Jack Kornfield
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended. -- Jean de La Fontaine
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated. -- Frank Bruni
White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge. -- Katherine Losse
I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background. -- Ben Whishaw
...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. -- Ilona Andrews
Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks. -- A.P.
To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy. -- Michael Ventura
The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule. -- John Piper
Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing. -- Jenna Fischer
Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. "How come I never get invited on these violent trips? -- Rick Riordan
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. -- John Lennon
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5. -- Jack Kilby
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. -- Margaret Oliphant
I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run. -- Aziz Ansari
Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable. -- H.W. Brands
Most folks probably think that gardens only get tended when they're blooming. But most folks would be wrong. -- Shannon Wiersbitzky
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS. -- Douglas Wilson
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. -- Edward Gibbon
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. -- Frederick Law Olmsted
But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. -- James Dashner
I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long. -- Brent Spiner
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. -- Michael Crichton
The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time. -- Gabrielle Union
It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. -- James Patterson
Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. -- Joseph Heller
If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life. -- Jim Goad
Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past. -- Joseph M. Juran
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. -- Neil Gaiman
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. -- Irving Babbitt
If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them. -- Alison Owen
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. -- Joseph Priestley
I always thought that my canine family tended to view me as the funny-looking two-legged dog who runs the can opener. -- Roger Caras
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights. -- Kate Bush
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life. -- Margaret Fuller
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal. -- Woody Allen
Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life. -- Sheena Easton
...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that. -- John Connolly
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. -- Samuel Johnson
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. -- Tanith Lee
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. -- Jonathan Lethem
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. -- Katherine Paterson
I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do. -- Hugh Jackman
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods. -- Hanna Rosin
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny. -- Baroness Orczy
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. -- Jasper Johns
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. -- David Hockney
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. -- David Christian
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. -- Steve Kangas
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. -- Libba Bray
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. -- Linus Torvalds
...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended. -- Julia Child
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them. -- Lauren Myracle
It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up. -- Rick Riordan
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. -- John Searle
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. -- Thelma Golden
But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned? -- Libba Bray
Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work. -- Adam Kirsch
Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them. -- Jo Brand
Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people? -- Shannon Hale
The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends" -- Anne Stuart
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself. -- Robert Galbraith
Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright). -- Rick Riordan
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary. -- Jeff Vandermeer
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one, -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds. -- Dan Brown
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving. -- Stephanie Coontz
Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity. -- Robert Burns
Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured. -- Julia Child
In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent. -- Bruce Beresford
From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned. -- Steve Maraboli
The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis. -- Frank Rich
I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. -- Neil Gaiman
People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention. -- Katie Chang
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. -- Emma Thompson
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view. -- Francois Hollande
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that. -- Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both. -- Terry Pratchett
Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full. -- Catherine Martin
Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results. -- Lisa Kleypas
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless. -- John Newton
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. -- Francis Ford Coppola
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. -- Iain Banks
It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves. -- Richard M. Weaver
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I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous. -- Sylvester Stallone
My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard. -- Amy Bloom

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