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• As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

  Diablo Cody

  Summer, Book, Writing

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• Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Book, Heart, Eye

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1903). “Works and Days”

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• I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

  Anne Desclos

  Military, Thinking, Discipline

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• It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Being Yourself, Believe, Negativity

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• Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter. When you come close to sellin' out reconsider. Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Heart, Giving, Choices

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.

  Violet Trefusis

  Drunk, Giving, Brave

  Said to Sackville-West. "Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson". Book by Nigel Nicolson, p. 148, 1998.

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• Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.

  Violet Trefusis

  Drunk, Brave, Wicked

  Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult

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• The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Money, Waiting, Challenges

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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• Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love, Beautiful, Brother

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• Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Shapes, Obedience

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Revenge, Mean

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• But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

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• I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Addiction, Hell, Demon

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• The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Song, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Flower, August

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.179

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• I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  People, Mind, Would Be

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Religious, Jesus, Prayer

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• He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Reading, Eye, Blood

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• Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Men And Women

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing up my bent finger as a controversial decision. I hope he'll go nice and easy - caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn't get his pads in the way or his bat's wide enough to get a thin edge [on Steve Waugh's last innings]

  Billy Bowden

  Honesty, Hate, Nice

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• I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

  Kirk Douglas

  Love, Dream, Heart

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• Don’t you listen to them, Rexy,” I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. “Rachel is a smart girl. She’s not going to go out with a ghost no matter how sexy he is. She knows better. Jenkskie wenskie can just get bent.” I beamed at Jenks, and he made an ugly face. “Rache, put my cat down before you mess with her kitty brain.

  Kim Harrison

  Girl, Sexy, Smart

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• The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

  Dan B. Allender

  Passion, Self, Desire

  Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Pain, Acceptance

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• [Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.

  Peter Vidmar

  Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

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