Tend

Famous quotes containing the word tend:

“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers’ attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.”
—Michael Lewis (late–20th-century)

“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)