Bending Quotes

133 quotes by 127 authors

Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability… — Ping Fu
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had… — Helen Barrett Montgomery
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. — Marisha Pessl
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional… — Lena Dunham
It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to… — Katherine Mansfield
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our… — John Stott
I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need… — Nic Sheff
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in… — Mary Catherine Bateson
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up.… — Laozi
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers... — Walt Whitman
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning… — Aesop
Much better than it has been all week. I got sick again this week, so I wasn't really able to breathe. I was on antibiotics… — Gabrielle Daleman
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective… — David Berlinski
Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight,… — Pythagoras
I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove — Groucho Marx
A photographerâ€™s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went… — Steven W. Mosher
February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side… — Laura Mennell

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