Bend Quotes
493 quotes by 409 authors
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It is funnier to bend things than to break them.
— W.C. Fields
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One day can bend your life.
— Mitch Albom
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Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something…
— Sarah Dessen
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Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job…
— Jen Lancaster
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
— Helen Keller
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I will be the answer at the end of the line. I will be there for you. Why take the time? In the burning of…
— Sarah McLachlan
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A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and…
— Libba Bray
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It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a…
— Maya Angelou
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Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.
— David Mitchell
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You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
— Ernest Gaines
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A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the…
— Amy Tan
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To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was…
— Virginia Woolf
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The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and…
— Temple Grandin
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that…
— John Keats
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.…
— Oscar Wilde
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I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.
— Lilith Saintcrow
Who Wrote These Bend Quotes
409 authors contributed a total of 493 Bend Quotes, led by these top contributors: