Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 411 authors

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of… — Confucius
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. — George Santayana
Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to… — Dan B. Allender
I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon. — Anthony Hopkins
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil. — Homer
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with… — Fulton J. Sheen
I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing… — Billy Bowden
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life… — Seneca the Younger
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He… — Kirk Douglas
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in. — Bob Dylan
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great,… — Harold Nicolson
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape! — Robert Ludlum
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have… — Albert Einstein

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