1.
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Mencius
2.
The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
Joseph Addison
3.
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.
Herbert Marcuse
4.
If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven
Dante Alighieri
5.
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
6.
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
Mary Wollstonecraft
7.
Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.
Frank Zappa
8.
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
Edward Norton
9.
I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
Anthony Kiedis
10.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
13.
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
Walter Lippmann
15.
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
Propertius
16.
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
Robert Ludlum
17.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes
18.
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
Homer
19.
We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.
Pink
20.
An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.
Auberon Waugh
21.
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
Lawrence Hargrave
22.
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.
Robert Breault
23.
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
24.
He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
Hesiod
25.
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
Jane Austen
29.
The man can only ride you when your back is bent.
Sarah Palin
30.
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.
Roger Ascham
31.
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
William Shakespeare
32.
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
Ed Koch
33.
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
Audrey Niffenegger
34.
If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.
Stephen Hales
35.
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
Eric Idle
36.
She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.
Rainbow Rowell
38.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
Philip Sidney
39.
A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.
Patterson Hood
41.
Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.
Stephen King
42.
A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
Dusty Springfield
43.
Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
Jennifer Crusie
44.
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.
Paul Henderson
46.
If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt.
Phillip Lopate
47.
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.
48.
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
Chuck Palahniuk
49.
A lot of people have been bent one way or the other on that. I'm not going to weigh in on that; I'm happy to still be at large, I'll just put it that way.
Ron Perlman
50.
Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.
Robert Henryson