Bend Quotes
493 quotes by 409 authors
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There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around…
— Steve Jobs
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Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
— Jewel
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Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
— Joaquin Miller
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Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks…
— Arno Hintjens
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I…
— Dylan Thomas
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
— Al Yankovic
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do…
— Frank Shamrock
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Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy…
— John Dryden
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep…
— Bill Vaughan
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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
— Brian Greene
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
— William Congreve
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You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,'…
— Joe DiMaggio
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My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my…
— Black Elk
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I bend and do not break.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for.…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with…
— Pope John XXIII
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I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with…
— Jay Kay
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
— Helen Keller
Who Wrote These Bend Quotes
409 authors contributed a total of 493 Bend Quotes, led by these top contributors: