Tend

Famous quotes containing the word tend:

“Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there’s a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”
—Rita Dove (b. 1952)

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