Bent Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld Download Open image “In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.” — Curtis Sittenfeld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bent Hell Life Prove
To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing. — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
“Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right?” — Lisa Cander Copy Share Image
Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove. — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it.... But ... I do not venture to assume… — Philip Meyer Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“She came down to my dorm that night, knocking on the door around nine o'clock. Martha was at the library, and I was eating… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Approaching each other, him from the gym, me from the library- this was when I walked down the aisle and he was waiting, this… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“But the truth was that I didn't want to stay in Riley. The pulls of familial love and obligation could not, for the moment,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent,… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape! — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
