Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up… — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way. — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all… — Kurt Cobain 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
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the… — Christine O'Donnell 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
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
He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.” — Charles Dickinson Copy Share Image