Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 411 authors

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
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
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
Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape. — John Kessel
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. — Alexander Pope
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
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
There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground — Rich Mullins
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
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
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
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
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
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. — Robert Breault
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
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
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
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
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

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