The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Because I knew it wasn't for forever." Grace touched his hair and he bent his head to kiss her, quiet as a… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
“We're not broken baby...we're just bent. And bent's okay. Bent means that we're just figuring things out.” — K. Bromberg Copy Share Image
I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us,… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible… — Phyllis Bottome 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
I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
"With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?” — Aleksandar Ristovic Copy Share Image
“The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say. — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
