Bending Quotes

• The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

  Aesop

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

  Bruce Lee

  Change, Moving On, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Bending Down, Differences

  Song: Heavenly Bank Account

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• The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspiring, Flower, Artist

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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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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

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• No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

  Marianne Williamson

  Flower, Events, Matter

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 12, 2014

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• Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Bows, Belief

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.213

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• Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.

  Ping Fu

  Attitude, Wind, Grace

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  The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

  Eartha Kitt

  Mean, Wind, Rivers

  FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Feb 26, 2016

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• Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.

  Barbara Johnson

  Baby, Laughter, Thinking

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• Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  Sarah Fielding

  Errors, Confusion, Desire

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• This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

  Tana French

  Girl, Reality, Light

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• He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  Douglas Horton

  Lifting Others, Fallen, Superior Man

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• The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Yellow, Apples, Bending Down

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Tree, Tragedy

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 1), 1980.

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• I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

  James Stockdale

  Pain, Blood, Giving

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• The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Men, Shields

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence

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• When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, Retirement

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Wind, Tree, Firsts

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• Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  William Whewell

  Lines, Force, Fine

  Elementary Treatise on Mechanics ch. 4 (1819). This is an instance of unintentional rhyme and meter. After the passage's poetical qualities were pointed out to him,Whewell altered it in subsequent editions of the book.

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• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Freedom Of Speech, Brain, Mind

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• Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

  David Soul

  Fitness, Exercise, Bending Down

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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