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

  Pink

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Love Again

  Song: Pink Just Give Me A Reason, Album: The Truth About Love

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Strength

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• A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Men, African American

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

  Amy Lee

  Christian, Spiritual, Ideas

  "More Goth than gospel" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2003.

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• Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

  Roger Ascham

  Learning, Math, Science

  "The whole works of Roger Ascham".

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

  Alanis Morissette

  Order, Trying, Entertainment

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• My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

  Chris LeDoux

  Race, Air, Splits

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• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Shining, Hammers

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ed Koch

  Killing, Persons, Wherever You Are

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• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Truth, Honesty

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• The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Sports, Life And Love

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• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Beauty

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole. Chapter "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes", 1994.

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Denial, May

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

  Andre Gide

  Long, Literature

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Bows, Frailty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

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• But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

  Robert Browning

  Life, Lying, Past

  Robert Browning (1912). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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• Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Trying, Literature

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.88, Ballantine Books

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• I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

  Uri Geller

  Funny, Pregnancy, Television

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

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• I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Clouds, Keys

  Anonymous, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “A Day With Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• ... a wild dissolving bliss
  Over my frame he breathed, approaching near,
  And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness
  Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Eye, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1836). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Comprising Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam, The Cenci...”, p.85

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• A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Men, Dying, Age

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.28, Random House

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• As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Theatre

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

  Julie Burchill

  Bridges, Tourists, Amsterdam

  "Chill factors" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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