Bending Quotes
133 quotes by 127 authors
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.
— Sandra Bullock
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The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved…
— William Jenkyn
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances…
— Auguste Rodin
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in…
— Sarah Fielding
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the…
— Joanna Lumley
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
— Sun Tzu
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We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
— Rahm Emanuel
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted,…
— David Anthony Durham
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts…
— Norman Grubb
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted…
— Wallace Stevens
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O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear,…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting…
— David Soul
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In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is…
— Auguste Rodin
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We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own…
— Glenn Hughes
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Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It…
— Henri Nouwen
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I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear…
— Ryan Buell
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Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude…
— Hugh Black
Who Wrote These Bending Quotes
127 authors contributed a total of 133 Bending Quotes, led by these top contributors: