Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way… — John Stott Copy Share Image
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it.… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute. — Melinda Clarke Copy Share Image
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
