Bent Quotes

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  I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

  Charles Dickens

  Suffering Pain, Broken, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

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• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Ears, Elbows

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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• Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

  Propertius

  Faithful, Mistress, Threat

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• I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Morning, Evil, Doubt

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• As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Tree, Grows

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America”, p.6, Three Rivers Press

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• It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat

  Christine O'Donnell

  Careers, White, People

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• I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Agriculture, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.42, Graphic Arts Books

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• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  Thornton Wilder

  Beauty, Evil, World

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• I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

  Jerry Reed

  Guitar, Years, Thankfulness

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• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  John Negroponte

  Thinking, Reform, Election

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• In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

  Linda Chavez

  Religious, Military, Want

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• I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

  John Nelson Darby

  Simplicity, Church, Add

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

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Weight, Woods, Metals

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• The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Lonely, Finals, May

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• As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

  George Ade

  Education, Tree, Twigs

  George Ade (2016). “Fables in Slang”, p.18, Youcanprint

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• I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

  Marie Windsor

  Shoes, Ballet, Boots

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

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

  Tom Tancredo

  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

  T. E. Brown

  Art, Men, Doe

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• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hope, Impossible, Standing Alone

  'A Summer Night' l. 68

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• The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

  Brian Setzer

  Country, Song, Unique

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• Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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• The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

  Frank Gaffney

  Oil, Trying, Enabling

  "Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg". www.foxnews.com. August 13, 2005.

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• I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

  Tom Hanks

  Country, Leader, Political

  "Hanks Forswears Elected Role". www.cbsnews.com. December 13, 2000.

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• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Weather, Skins

  E. B. White (2014). “Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976”, p.7, Harper Collins

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