Bend Quotes - page 6

Flotsam floats when all is sunk. Jetsam thrown isn't just junk. Coughs and colds and bright red sores Waiting for us, so bend yer oars! (Garth Nix)
Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by, It's so hard to make every note bend just right. You lay down the hours and leave not one trace But a tune for the dancing is there in it's place. View quote
Iris DeMent
It is an exciting and dangerous time, for this generation of Americans has the opportunity so rarely granted to others by fate and history. We literally have the chance to shape the future - to put our own stamp on the face and character of America, to bend history just a little bit. View quote
Joe Biden
See those trees Bend in the wind I feel they've got a lot more sense than me You see I try to resist... View quote
Kate Bush
A rubberband bouncing back to life A rubberband bend the beat If I could learn to give like a rubberband I'd be back on my feet... View quote
Kate Bush
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend. Half that man's virtue doth Zeus take away, Whom he surrenders to the servile day. View quote
Homer
He's stunned numb when she takes his hand and says, "Let's give it a try. I've been thinking maybe I don't bend enough or try to see anyone else's point of view.”. View quote
John Barnes
They pay for their ticket, let them do what they want to do. I get mad. One of these days, I'll leave my uniform on the field and keep on walking. If I don't hustle or something like that, I'd say that it would be good for me to be booed. The problem with me is hitting. You hit.280, it's a pretty good average. But I used to hit.350, so.280 is not good enough. A lot of times in my career, I play when I shouldn't play. I say as long as I can run and swing a bat, I play. That was my biggest mistake. One time I play with a shoulder – it hurts so bad, I can't lift it. I hit into a double play. Then they hit a ball to the outfield and I can't bend down to pick it up, so they boo me. The season start, I hurt my finger the last weekend of spring training. I couldn't grip the bat right and I was trying to pull everything. They would like for you to start every year from the beginning, right on top, boom, boom, boom. Now I start a season a little bit slowly, so they boo. View quote
Roberto Clemente
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. (James Joyce)
[bends over] *errgh* Sorry for making that noise, but ... that's what happens when you get older. One day what happens is that you bend over, and you never come back. View quote
Craig Ferguson
In this country and in other democracies, the enemies of civilisation and freedom have turned to the gun and the bomb to destroy those they can't persuade. The terrorist threat to freedom is worldwide. It can never be met by appeasement. Give in to the terrorist and you breed more terrorism. At home and abroad our message is the same. We will not bargain, nor compromise, nor bend the knee to terrorists. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
The solar rays will kindle fire on the earth, by which a thing that is under the sky will be set on fire, and, being reflected by some obstacle, it will bend downwards. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The cities are everywhere in decline. Trade, industry and agriculture bend under the weight of taxation. View quote
Winston Churchill
Our Youth is fleeting Old age is just around the bend And I can't wait to go grey And I'll sit and wonder Of every love that could have been If I'd only thought of something charming to say. View quote
Ben Gibbard
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. View quote
Isabel Allende
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. View quote
Franz Kafka
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits. (Mohsin Hamid)
People, they don't know how to bend; they just break. View quote
Noah Hawley
I'm a huge Marvel fan and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics and it says, "Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it, it's elastic. It's bouncy." View quote
Tilda Swinton
Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality. View quote
Holly Black
If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else. View quote
Bernie Mac