Bending Quotes - Page 7

• As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

  Gerald Jonas

  Police, Promise, Fiction

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• Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

  Lisa Genova

  Funny Things, Perspective, Stretching

  Lisa Genova (2013). “Love Anthony”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

  Novalis

  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Novalis (1995). “Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson ("B.V.") of Hymns to night”

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• A bending staff I would not break,
  A feeble faith I would not shake,
  Nor even rashly pluck away
  The error which some truth may stay,
  Whose loss might leave the soul without
  A shield against the shafts of doubt.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Faith, Loss, Errors

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.157

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• I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don't take them into consideration. And are bending the legislative process in their own behalf.

  Alexander Stille

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.

  Max Stirner

  Attitude, Humble, People

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he feels an ecstacy as though he had performed a miracle each time.

  G. E. M. Skues

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.

  Michael Drayton

  Rivers, Feet, Lakes

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• This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.

  John Carroll

  Understanding, Restless, Given

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Reality, Law, Chemicals

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• I kind of missed the whole running into each other thing. Provided a lot of excitement." "I don't miss that," I admitted, bending over and rummaging through my bag for my notebook. "That was really embarrassing." "It shouldn't have been." "Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing." Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had.

  J. Lynn

  Notebook, Running, Missing

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• Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Decision, Energy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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