Bent Quotes

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.

Change, Work, Freedom

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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, Beauty, Truth

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams, Hope, True

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

Moment, Genius, House

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

Truth, Doubt, May

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

Else, Champion, Vision

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, Down, Here

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

Nature, Beautiful, Nothing

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 Brault

Truth, Today, True

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Everything, Destiny

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Michel de Montaigne

Water, Matters, Looks

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education, Mind, Common

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education, Mind, Common

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

Good, Long, Follow

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil

Tree, Twig, Inclines

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

Person, Trying, Keep

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

Weather, Write, Once

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
Jeff Bridges

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
Jack White

Work, Attitude, Struggle

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
Pat Robertson

Religion, Islam, Political

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
Sextus Propertius

Faithful, Mistress, Constant

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

Human, Cannot, Stand

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks

Good, Knowledge, Small

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
Diablo Cody

Writing, Books, Summer

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
Edward Norton

Life, Point, Proving

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

Life, Past, Before

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

Live, Political, Country

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
Karen Armstrong

Religion, Human, Why

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

Bitter, Seems, Nor

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