Bent Quotes

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

I’d still be nice to you if you were ugly.” “Okay.” A wicked grin slipped over his full lips. He bent his head down and whispered, “I just wouldn’t offer you any cookies.

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Because I knew it wasn't for forever." Grace touched his hair and he bent his head to kiss her, quiet as a secret.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

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 shape about it.

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.