Bend Quotes
493 quotes by 409 authors
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Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and…
— Terry Pratchett
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When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
— Victor Borge
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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A…
— Carl Sagan
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It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our…
— John Steinbeck
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I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you…
— Pablo Neruda
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My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to…
— John Piper
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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up…
— Agatha Christie
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He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It…
— Lauren Kate
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
— Harper Lee
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By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered…
— John Mayer
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...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until…
— Russell T Davies
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As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I…
— Joan Didion
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Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
— Albert Camus
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in…
— Richard Wright
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You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push him beyond where…
— Melissa Marr
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It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the…
— Colum McCann
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I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Bend Quotes
409 authors contributed a total of 493 Bend Quotes, led by these top contributors: