Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 411 authors

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes,… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties. — Anne Desclos
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and… — Joan D. Chittister
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter. When you come close to sellin' out reconsider. Give the heavens above more than just a… — Lee Ann Womack
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. — Mencius
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little… — Violet Trefusis
Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it… — Violet Trefusis
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited,… — Barbara Tuchman
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful… — Malcolm Muggeridge
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk,… — Zhuangzi
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me… — Jerry Reed
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing. — Michael N. Castle
What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not… — Hiroko Sakai
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident… — William Carlos Williams
What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is… — Rudy Rucker
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace. — Thomas a Kempis
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists. — Gunter Grass
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. — Gertrude B. Elion
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little… — Johnny Depp
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini

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