Bent Quotes - Page 14

• I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Complaining, Littles, Overdose

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.340, Hachette UK

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• A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Taken, Years, Sides

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.81, Canongate Books

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• She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Necks, Scared

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.171, St. Martin's Griffin

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

  Michelle Sagara

  Dream, Men, Firsts

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.214, LUNA

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• It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always been bent on seeking each other's destruction by continual wars; and as force, when brought against us, can only be repelled by force; the chief support of war, must, after money, be now sought in chemistry.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Art, War, Mean

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• The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Kings, Prayer, Attitude

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• We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Children, School, Organization

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• What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Looks

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• More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Suicide, Children

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• He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Love, Crush, Kissing

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Tree, Looks

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.711, Penguin

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• The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religious, Men, Roots

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

  Jack Kerouac

  World, Woe, Causes

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.33, City Lights Books

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• I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Inability, Admitting

  Jim Cymbala, Dean Merrill (1999). “Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People”, p.45, Zondervan

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• Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Destiny, Men

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• I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

  Rick Yancey

  Strong, Mistake, Mean

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• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.

  Beverley Nichols

  Eye, Cat, Garden

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• The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Coal, Weapons, Lord

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.245, Macmillan

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• Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Poetry, Shapes, Prose

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• The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

  Robert Jordan

  Adversity, Wind, Broken

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• The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

  Satish Kumar

  God, Spiritual, Art

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• So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Wall, Night

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.87, tredition

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• As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flower, Night, White

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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• You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.

  Sylvia Day

  Mistake, Weakness, Forget

  FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 22, 2012

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