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Bent Quotes

1.
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Mencius

Authors on Bent Quotes: Frank Zappa William Shakespeare Ed Koch Pink Mary Wollstonecraft Ron Perlman Anthony Kiedis John Kessel Robert Henryson Curtis Sittenfeld Herbert Marcuse Van Wyck Brooks Edward Norton Mencius Mahatma Gandhi Arundhati Roy Propertius Joseph Addison Robert Ludlum Bill O'Reilly Herbert V. Prochnow Rainbow Rowell Eric Idle Miguel de Cervantes J. Patrick Lewis Audrey Niffenegger Publilius Syrus Hesiod Stephen Hales Alexander Pope Jane Austen Ralph Waldo Emerson Dante Alighieri
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

11.
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
Herbert V. Prochnow

12.
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander Pope

13.
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
Propertius

14.
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.
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

19.
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
Homer

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
Lawrence Hargrave

23.
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.
Robert Breault

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

26.
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
Ed Koch

27.
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
William Shakespeare

28.
As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
Bill O'Reilly

29.
Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.
J. Patrick Lewis

30.
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
Publilius Syrus

31.
The man can only ride you when your back is bent.
Sarah Palin

32.
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

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.
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

36.
In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
Curtis Sittenfeld

37.
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

38.
Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.
John Kessel

39.
His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
Arundhati Roy

40.
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
Mahatma Gandhi

41.
She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.
Rainbow Rowell

42.
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
Eric Idle

43.
I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
Philip Sidney

45.
A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.
Patterson Hood

46.
I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.
Alexandra Guarnaschelli

47.
Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.
Stephen King

48.
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

49.
Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
Jennifer Crusie

50.
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