Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 406 authors

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things… — J. Carter Brown
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it. — Louis L'Amour
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. — Jean Paul
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating… — Fulton J. Sheen
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
Cultivate your gardenÂ… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you Â… follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own… — Will Durant
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. — William Shakespeare
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as… — Sam Walter Foss
Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long… — George Arnold
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under… — Edward Alsworth Ross
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ... — Matthew Arnold
Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness. — Leo Burnett
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some… — Matthew Arnold
Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to… — Josef von Sternberg
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride… — Sheri Holman
Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion… — Desmond Tutu
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? — Madame de Stael

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