Around The Bend Quotes

• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Encouragement, Trying, Encounters

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1953). “Spiritual maxims”

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• It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Selfish, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

  Albert Camus

  Broken Heart, Teacher, Lost Love

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

  Stephen Malkmus

  People, Musician, Like You

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

  Herman Wouk

  Leadership, Sight, Leader

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• This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Powerful

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

  Paul Simon

  Fun, Writing, Path

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.

  Kekla Magoon

  Lying, Rocks, Rivers

  Kekla Magoon (2009). “The Rock and the River”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Love, Secret, Twists

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• There's a tendency for us to think that the secret of our success is something that is mystical and maybe someday my time will come. And it's certainly out there somewhere; it's around the bend; it's at the top of the hill.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Secret, Hills

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Kids, Order

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• You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.

  James Cromwell

  Animal, Shoes, Car

  "James Cromwell: “Artist,” Activist and Taking on a Black and White Silent Picture". Interview with Mark Rabinowitz, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2011.

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• I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Watches, Absence

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• For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of it. Simultaneously. Now, I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time, but I would think that's a project you might want to stagger out a bit if you haven't forged an alliance with any galactic empires lately.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Thinking, Russia, Europe

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• He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal.

  Lauren Kate

  Distance, Waiting, Burning

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• Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

  David Mitchell

  Bunnies, Fluffy, Cages

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.173, Random House Group

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• When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Queens, Lying, Believe

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.247, e-artnow

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• There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.

  Brandi Carlile

  Believe, Writing, Vintage

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