Bending Quotes

• The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

  Aesop

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

  Bruce Lee

  Change, Moving On, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

  Albert Camus

  Broken Heart, Teacher, Lost Love

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Bending Down, Differences

  Song: Heavenly Bank Account

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• The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspiring, Flower, Artist

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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.

  Ping Fu

  Attitude, Wind, Grace

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• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

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• No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

  Marianne Williamson

  Flower, Events, Matter

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 12, 2014

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  The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

  Eartha Kitt

  Mean, Wind, Rivers

  FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Feb 26, 2016

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• Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  Sarah Fielding

  Errors, Confusion, Desire

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• He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  Douglas Horton

  Lifting Others, Fallen, Superior Man

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• This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

  Tana French

  Girl, Reality, Light

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• Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Bows, Belief

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.213

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• The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Yellow, Apples, Bending Down

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

  Randy Alcorn

  Black And White, Army, Fog

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• I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

  James Stockdale

  Pain, Blood, Giving

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• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Tree, Tragedy

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 1), 1980.

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• The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Men, Shields

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Book

  "When You Are Old" l. 1 (1893)

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• And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

  Sydney Pollack

  Real, Years, Knowing

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

  Joanna Lumley

  Thinking, Mind, Stuff

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• I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

  Angela Cartwright

  Thinking, America, Space

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• In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

  Parminder Nagra

  Girl, Football, Believe

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