Bent Quotes - Page 2

• People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  People, Prowess, Breeding

  "Opinions of Oliver Allston".

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• A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

  Buddy Hackett

  Circles, Comedian, World

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• A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  What Matters, Water, Looks

  "Selected Essays".

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• The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Graduation, Education

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

  J. Carter Brown

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

  Alice Walker

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

  Michael N. Castle

  Teaching, School, Nursing

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• Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

  Thomas Campion

  Inspirational, Funny, Weather

  'Two Books of Airs' (1612/1613) no. 11

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• I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

  George Voinovich

  Country, Views, People

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• Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Way, Reason Why

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

  Robert Fortune

  Eye, Purpose, Tongue

  Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.72

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• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  Uri Geller

  Years, Kitchen, Spoons

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

  Tucker Carlson

  Winning, People, Culture

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• I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

  Christopher Darden

  Crazy, Real, Years

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• It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

  Stephen Root

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Pain, Guitar, Two

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• I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

  Jack White

  Attitude, Struggle, Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Evil, Want, Occasions

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 459, 1856.

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• We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Kids, Winning

  "Bad boy bode" by Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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• Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Might, Knees

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• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Destiny, Maids, Temper

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• If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

  Charles Bent

  Suffering, Promotion, Christ

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Strength, Inspiring

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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