To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks… — Philemon Copy Share Image
Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So, what I am learning to do is (to) learn each of their personalities - to study them, to learn how their… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't.… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. — John Cage Copy Share Image
What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street.… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it ... I… — Dusty Springfield Copy Share Image
Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
