Bent Quotes

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

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

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

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

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

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

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.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

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.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

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.

I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

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

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

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.

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

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

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

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.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

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.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

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

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.

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.

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.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.