Bent Quotes - page 2

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor. (Raymond Chandler)
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn. View quote
Ramakrishna
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
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 with thick-set fruit. View quote
Christina Rossetti
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. View quote
Matthew Arnold
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear. View quote
Edith Wharton
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism. View quote
Terry Eagleton
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful. View quote
Enoch Powell
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner. (Lin Yutang)
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Ane Bow that is ay bent Worthis unsmart, and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent, In ernistfull thochtis, and in studying. View quote
Robert Henryson
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. View quote
Uri Geller
Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again. View quote
Gillian Anderson
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. View quote
Andy Partridge
Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet. View quote
Conor Oberst
It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families. View quote
Hillary Clinton
The earth with yellow pears And overgrown with roses wild Upon the pond is bent, And swans divine, With kisses drunk You drop your heads In the sublimely sobering water. But where, with winter come, am I To find, alas, the floweres, and where The sunshine And the shadow of the world? Cold the walls stand And the wordless, in the wind The weathercocks are rattling. View quote
Friedrich Hölderlin
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. View quote
Fannie Flagg
You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra's stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can't kill all your fun. (Chris) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
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. View quote
James Patterson
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. View quote
Jane Smiley
Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken? View quote
Jennifer Weiner
The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain. View quote
Peter D. Mitchell