Bent Quotes - Page 19

• Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
  Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
  But was a race of heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Race

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

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• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Water, Joy

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• Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

  George Santayana

  Time, Knowing, Eternity

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Kissing, May

  Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.532, Barnes & Noble

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• Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, May, Revolution

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• Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Father, Eye

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• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

  Albert Einstein

  Long, Age, Debt

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• King George III may have been a greedy ‘control freak,’ but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a Muslim bent on furthering an Islamic caliphate who seeks to destroy our spirituality and the body politic of our Judeo-Christian roots.

  Larry Klayman

  Christian, Running, Kings

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• The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.

  Eddie Murphy

  Pain, Dying, Towels

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• No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard.

  Miley Cyrus

  Men, Talking, Robins

  "Miley Cyrus' 'Rolling Stone' Cover Shoot". www.rollingstone.com. September 24, 2013.

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• He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

  Edith Wharton

  Silence, Bed, Lasts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.732, Delphi Classics

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• Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually.

  Martin Amis

  Running, Dream, Moving

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• No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men

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• He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

  Raymond Chandler

  Swings, Hands, Rooms

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.155, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, People, Majority

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• We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Mirrors, Eyebrows

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• We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be alert, stern, righteous and ascetic. For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.

  Harold Nicolson

  War, Remembrance, Noble

  "Peacemaking, 1919".

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• I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Struggle, Mean

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

  Phillips Brooks

  Mean, Purpose, Might

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Pliers, Care

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

  Robert Ludlum

  Blessed, Shapes, Flexible

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• If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fashion, Integrity, Successful

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• From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smile, Heart, Simple

  "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" l. 55 (1842)

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• Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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