Bending an object in order to make it useless for its…

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

— Caroline Norton

Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet…

— Max Stirner

For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and…

— Chelsea Clinton

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped…

— James Weldon Johnson

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend…

— Eartha Kitt

I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my…

— Glenn Hughes

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

— Bruce Lee

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending…

— William Morris

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as…

— Adam Gopnik

Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for…

— Paul Cezanne

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,…

— Roger Angell

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer…

— David Crystal

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating…

— John Stott