Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 417 authors

Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and… — Louay M. Safi
He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another — Hesiod
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God… — Josef Pieper
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. — Thomas Campion
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there… — Alexander MacLaren
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the… — Italo Calvino
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. — Neal A. Maxwell
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones.… — Brian Setzer
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work… — Jack White
I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's… — Christopher Darden
Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to… — Madonna Ciccone
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. — Seneca the Younger
I sometimes struggle with how to properly respond to Godâ€™s magnitude in a world bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him.Â But know this: God… — Francis Chan
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. — Zig Ziglar
The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason,… — Joseph Addison
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the… — Van Wyck Brooks
I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. — Tug McGraw
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how… — Roger Ascham
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to… — Emma Goldman
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, &… — Roger Ascham

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