Bent Quotes

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

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.

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.

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

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.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

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

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

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

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

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

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

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

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

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

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.

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.

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

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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.

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

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

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

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

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

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt.

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

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.

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

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.

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

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

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

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.

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

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

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

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

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