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Bent Quotes by Gunter Grass
- The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.
- I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the…
More Bent Quotes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac
- Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry
- The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost… — Annie Besant
- Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead… — Ambrose Bierce
- Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know… — Jeff Bridges
- People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks
- Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. — Julie Burchill
- But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning
- The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes
- My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all… — Kurt Cobain
- As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one. — Diablo Cody