So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt.
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent
to a gang bent on destruction.
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection.
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
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.
Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide.
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.
In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.
There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
I was never hell bent on being an actress forever, but I will not say that I won't work again.
There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.
Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.
If you don't have patience in this profession, you almost always end up getting bent out of shape expecting quick results.
I can't help but see things in life through a humorous lens, so anything that comes my way is gonna probably be, you know, bent in that direction.
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
The Liberal Party of Canada has demonstrated that it is hell bent on winning their majority at almost any cost.
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
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