Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 406 authors

If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven — Dante Alighieri
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems,… — Dante Alighieri
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only… — Thomas Szasz
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way? — Steven Wright
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them. — Jane Austen
The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. — Jack Kerouac
I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his… — Jim Cymbala
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be… — Victor Hugo
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Natureâ€™s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent… — Haruki Murakami
Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and… — Charles Dickens
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing… — Jonathan Stroud
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane… — Douglas Adams
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving… — Julian Gough
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father,… — Amy Tan

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