"A straight oar looks bent in the water.……" — Michel de Montaigne

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• 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,… — Honore de Balzac
• Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your… — Dave Barry
• The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and… — Annie Besant
• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may… — Ambrose Bierce
• Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I… — Jeff Bridges
• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or… — Van Wyck Brooks
• Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing… — 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… — Kurt Cobain
• As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one. — Diablo Cody

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