Bent Quotes - Page 18

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Matt Gonzalez

Thinking, Judging, Shapes

"Matt Gonzalez would govern from the left" by Rachel Gordon, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2003.

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When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.

Stefan Zweig

Hero, Years, Accomplishment

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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Phillips Brooks

Mean, Purpose, Might

Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
Green as a bough of yew the beard;
He bent his head, and so I smote

Yvor Winters

Yew, Green, Beard

Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

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Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

Franz Grillparzer

Rights, Two, Proof

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Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Men, Expression

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Matthew Arnold

Knowledge, Science, Knowing

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Celtic Literature”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

Leo Burnett

Irritation, Confusion, Noses

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Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

Matthew Arnold

Dream, Wall, Work

Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

Jodi Picoult

Believe, Heart, Sunset

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As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.

Alexander MacLaren

Self, Hands, Class

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 68), 1895.

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In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

Margaret Thatcher

Country, Exercise, Self

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

John Donne

Fall, Expression, Hands

John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.386

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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

W. P. Kinsella

Strong, Law, Rope

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Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

George Herbert

Mind, Done, May

George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

John Milton

Sea, Land, Prey

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 440

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Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

Amy Lowell

Horse, War, Soldier

Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

Enoch Powell

Years, Russia, Challenges

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The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.

Friedrich Holderlin

Wall, Kissing, Winter

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Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice - the foundation stones for a sound democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Justice, Political, Democracy

"'Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours'" by Aung San Suu Kyi, www.nytimes.com. June 16, 2012.

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If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

Stephen Hales

Helping, Chaps, Seems

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It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

Michael Caine

Thinking, People, Track

"Michael Caine meets William Orbit". Interview with William Orbit, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.

Robert Jordan

Fire, Dragons, Blood

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Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

Conor Oberst

Kindness, War, Rain

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Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Andy Partridge

Heart, School, Broken

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