I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman 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
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished… — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued… — Louay M. Safi Copy Share Image
Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
He bent, lips coming to mine and — 'Derek? Chloe?' It was Kit, opening the back door. Derek let out a low… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint - and I've named 20 of them - the justices that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Do me a favor?” he whispered. Beth's hold tightened on his hand. ”Anything, what do you need?” ”Hum the Jeopardy theme.” There… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent,… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image