Top 691 Bent Quotes & Sayings

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.

He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.

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

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

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

That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ?????? [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which I mean is this: That our Air either consists of, or at least abounds with, parts of such a nature, that in case they be bent or compress'd by the weight of the incumbent part of the Atmosphere, or by any other Body, they do endeavour, as much as in them lies, to free themselves from that pressure, by bearing against the contiguous Bodies that keep them bent.

I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

I have already bent time to my will.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Russia is bent on world domination.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

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

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

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

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Spirituality is a great bent of mind. It gives peace and hope to me.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!

The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.

Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

My body's weird and bent in different ways, but it's handy for the tango!

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

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

Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.

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.

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.