Bent Quotes - Page 6

• People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

  Clarence Thomas

  Kids, People, Water

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• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  Fannie Flagg

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

  Truman Capote

  Girl, Eye, Giving

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.98, Vintage

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• I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!

  Ewan McGregor

  Sorry, Fighting, Light

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• She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish and what was probably her fourth cup of coffee. We slid into seats beside her. "How's it—hey! You ARE playing Minesweeper!

  Richelle Mead

  Coffee, Hey, Cafes

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• I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

  Judith McNaught

  Dream, Black, World

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• You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your part, little Tanya, if you are thinking I have to be angry to make love to you." His head bent, his lips grazing her cheek all the way to her ear. With his warm breath sending tingles all over her, he continued in a whisper, "I wanted you last night, today a dozen times, right now more than ever. Tell me to love you, Tanya. Demand it of me!

  Johanna Lindsey

  Love You, Night, Thinking

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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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• His voice was low and rough … “What about you? Do you like bad boys?” “There’s definitely appeal,” she breathed. “Good,” He bent and clipped her earlobe with his teeth … “Because they don’t come badder than me.

  Larissa Ione

  Boys, Voice, Teeth

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• His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

  Arundhati Roy

  Gratitude, His Smile

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.76, Penguin Books India

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• We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

  Ali Smith

  Character, Past, Rolling Along

  "Do we still need Doctor Who? Time travel in the internet age" by James Gleick, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2017.

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• We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

  Randy Newman

  Family, Kids, Want

  Song: Love Story

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• I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Evil, Whiskey, Hell

  Song: Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound, 2006

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• I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Artist, Cartoon, Hell

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• Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Frustration, Men, Luxury

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• Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Writing, Science, Years

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

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• Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

  Walter Lippmann

  Intelligent, Soul, Mediocre

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.137, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Adversity, Ease, Firsts

  'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift' (1731) l. 7

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• Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Affection, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 36

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• During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Powerful, War, Military

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• In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

  Jacobus Arminius

  Men, Grace, Useless

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• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Expression, Law, Intellectual

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.17, AK Press

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• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Stupid, Expression, Order

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.

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• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.

  Mark Doty

  Moving, Light, House

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break us all at some point—our bodies and minds, our hearts and egos. When we put ourselves back together, we find that we are no longer perfectly straight, but rather bent and cracked. Yet it is through these cracks that our authenticity shines. It is by revealing these cracks that we can learn to see and be seen deeply.

  Ping Fu

  Heart, Shining, Ego

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