Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 417 authors

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part… — Honore de Balzac
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but… — Annie Besant
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment… — Ambrose Bierce
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a… — Jeff Bridges
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. — Julie Burchill
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and… — Kurt Cobain
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one. — Diablo Cody
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of… — G. Campbell Morgan
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all… — Eleanor Farjeon
But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience… — Wendell Berry
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts… — Peter Vidmar

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