Bent Quotes
474 quotes by 411 authors
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Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . .…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it…
— Enid Blyton
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Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.
— John Kessel
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
— Alexander Pope
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Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that…
— Phil Jackson
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I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball…
— Janet Evanovich
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There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground
— Rich Mullins
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For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that…
— Steven Millhauser
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I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
— Matt Gonzalez
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I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it…
— John Kendrick Bangs
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.
— Robert Breault
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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead…
— Orson Scott Card
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For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting…
— Craig Claiborne
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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
— Phillips Brooks
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I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each…
— Geoffrey Fisher
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink)…
— Alan Bennett
Who Wrote These Bent Quotes
411 authors contributed a total of 474 Bent Quotes, led by these top contributors: