Bent Quotes

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.