The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun. — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen. — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current,… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also… — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
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