Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12);… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen.… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. — Seneca the Younger 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
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over… — Tan Twan Eng Copy Share Image
