Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 406 authors

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of… — Henry David Thoreau
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. — Alice Walker
I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in… — Joss Whedon
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather… — Elwyn Brooks White
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. — Thornton Wilder
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery.… — P.G. Wodehouse
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat,… — Dag Hammarskjold
Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went. — Stephen King
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws. — Charles Bukowski
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the… — Edith Wharton
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent. — Mahatma Gandhi
He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When… — Raymond Chandler
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I… — Jennifer Weiner
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of… — M.F.K. Fisher
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the… — Marya Hornbacher
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face… — Charles Dickens

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