Bend Quotes

1. "Sabiedriba to tikai vien doma ka mani izkalpinat, izspiest sulu, izdzit uz to beidzamo un tad nu pecgala doma ar pensiju atpirkties. Vai lai es palidzu sevi bendet.? Ne, to vini no manis nesagaidis.! Es gribu dzivot ne sliktak ka visi, bet es neesmu tads mulkis, lai ta liektu muguru ka visi."
Author: Alberts Bels

2. "He (Lafcadio) was sitting all alone in a compartment of the train which was carrying him away from Rome, & contemplating–not without satisfaction–his hands in their grey doeskin gloves, as they lay on the rich fawn-colored plaid, which, in spite of the heat, he had spread negligently over his knees. Through the soft woolen material of his traveling-suit he breathed ease and comfort at every pore; his neck was unconfined in its collar which without being low was unstarched, & from beneath which the narrow line of a bronze silk necktie ran, slender as a grass snake, over his pleated shirt. He was at ease in his skin, at ease in his shoes, which were cut out of the same doeskin as his gloves; his foot in its elastic prison could stretch, could bend, could feel itself alive. His beaver hat was pulled down over his eyes & kept out the landscape; he was smoking dried juniper, after the Algerian fashion, in a little clay pipe & letting his thoughts wander at their will …"
Author: André Gide

3. "Anoche cuando dormíaAnoche cuando dormíasoñé, ¡bendita ilusiòn!,que una fontana fluíadentro de mi corazòn.Di: ¿por qué acequia escondida,agua, vienes hasta mí,manantial de nueva vidaen donde nunca bebí?Anoche cuando dormíasoñé, ¡bendita ilusiòn!,que una colmena teníadentro de mi corazòn;y las doradas abejasiban fabricando en él,con las amarguras viejas,blanca cera y dulce miel.Anoche cuando dormíasoñé, ¡bendita ilusiòn!,que un sol ardiente lucíadentro de mi corazòn.Era ardiente porque dabacalores de rojo hogar,y era sol porque alumbrabay porque hacía llorar.Anoche cuando dormíasoñé, ¡bendita ilusiòn!,que era Dios lo que teníadentro de mi corazòn."
Author: Antonio Machado

4. "I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing."
Author: Bode Miller

5. "The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses."
Author: Buck Brannaman

6. "I understand the influence you have all too well. The commander will do exactly what you want, bend to your will. That alone should prove to you that strength is a woman's endowment, not a man's."
Author: Cayla Kluver

7. "Ilgi duymuyordum.Hiçbir seye ilgi duymuyordum.Nasil kaçabilecegime dair hiç fikrim yoktu.Digerleri yasamdan tat aliyorlardi hiç olmazsa.Benim anlamadigim bir seyi anlamislardi sanki.Bende bir eksiklik vardi belki de.Mümkündü.Sik sik asagilik duygusuna kapilirdim.Onlardan uzak olmak istiyordum.Gidecek yerim yoktu ama.Intihar ?Tanrim,çaba gerektiriyordu.Bes yil uyumak istiyordum ama izin vermezlerdi."
Author: Charles Bukowski

8. "FIRST MORALGood manners are not easyThey need a little care,But when we least expect itBring rewards both rich and rare.SECOND MORALBrute force or bribes of diamondsBend others to your will,But gentle words have greater powerAnd gain more conquests still."
Author: Charles Perrault

9. "For her I bend, for you I break."
Author: Colleen Hoover

10. "Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt."
Author: Elfriede Jelinek

11. "Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."
Author: Elizabeth I

12. "Er setzte seine finsterste Miene auf. Böse, sagte er sich, böse, aber hoch intelligent. Und entschlossen, vergiss die Entschlossenheit nicht. [...] Er öffnete die Tür.»Guten Abend«, grüßte er, ganz der perfekte Gastgeber, wenn auch ein hinterhältiger, böser, intelligenter und entschlossener.Root stand, die leeren Hände demonstrativ ausgestreckt, vor der Tür. Die universale Geste für: Sieh her, ich trage keine große, mörderische Waffe."
Author: Eoin Colfer

13. "There were in this strange nature, depths so awful and profound that it was not to be sounded or to be judged as others were. But one thing could have melted or caused the unconquerable spirit to bend, and this was the overwhelming passion of love--not a slight, tender feeling, but a great and powerful one, such as could be awakened but by a being of as strong and deep a nature as itself, one who was in all things its peer."
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

14. "Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks."
Author: Isabel Allende

15. "I bend and do not break."
Author: Jean De La Fontaine

16. "[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering."
Author: Jeannette Walls

17. "This quick foray onto the toilet has been no different an endeavor than any other time I've used the restroom in my adult life. Try then to imagine my surprise when instead of the waste going down the u-bend like the thousands of times previous, the bowl's contents go not gentle into that good night.Instead, they shoot directly up at me . . . at approximately 80 miles an hour.As I leap backward, slamming into the glass shower door, the only thought going through my now-banged head is, When did I eat corn?"Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomanical, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase"
Author: Jen Lancaster

18. "Benle mutlulugum arasina saplanan mesafe dünya degildi, bombalar ve yanan binalar degildi, bendim, düsünmemdi, bir seyleri asla koyuveremiyor olmanin kanseriydi. Cehalet tam mutluluk mudur, bilmiyorum ama düsünmek çok aci verici ve söyleyin bana, düsünmek bana ne verdi, beni hangi üstün mertebeye getirdi? Düsünüyor, düsünüyor ve düsünüyorum, kendimi milyon kere mutlulugun disinda düsündüm ama bir kere bile içinde düsünmedim. Çikarabildigim son sözcük "ben"di ki feci bir seydi..."
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

19. "When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does."
Author: L.M. Montgomery

20. "Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree."
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

21. "Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy."
Author: Liane Moriarty

22. "The Father of Winter says tells Ista,"...For my great-souled child is very late, and lost upon his road. My calling voice cannot reach him. He cannot see the light in my window, for he is sundered from me, blind and deaf and stumbling, with none to take his hand and guide him. Yet you may touch him, in his darkness. And I may touch you, in yours. Then take you this thread to draw him through the maze, where I cannot go."Later, Ista delivers the message,"Your Father calls you to His Court. You need not pack; you go garbed in glory as you stand. He waits eagerly by His palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at His high table by His side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved. In this I speak true. Bend your head."
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

23. "A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!"
Author: Ludwig Von Mises

24. "Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do."
Author: Maggie Macnab

25. "Der Tod verändert auch die Lebenden."
Author: Markus Heitz

26. "I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me."
Author: Mary E. Pearson

27. "Bend when you must. Pull when you must. Both are an offering. When you bend, be at peace; when you pull, do so gently."
Author: Maureen Moss

28. "He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly."
Author: Meredith Duran

29. "Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?"
Author: Mervyn Peake

30. "Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit."
Author: Neal Shusterman

31. "Circumstances change. Bend or break..."
Author: Nora Roberts

32. "Ben öyle yerlere varmistim ki hayalimde bu ayrilmayi bir ihanet saydim gücendim. Hayir benimle basa çikilmaz beni birak Günseli. Herkes için öyle hayaller kurdum ki senin için de bir kurmaya baslarsam...Bak Günseli düsün beni tanidigin kadariyla seviyorsun, bir bilsen bilmediklerinin yaninda bildiklerin ne kadar az yer tutuyor. Belki ben öyle esasli bir adamim ki, her seyimi bilsen askin da korkunç olacak ben dayanamayacagim.Sonra birden suratini asardi. Bunlarin dogru olmadigini içimde bir yerde biliyorum. Belki tanidikça benden uzaklasacaksin. Belki ben, tanidigin kadar bir seyim. Geride bir sey yoktur ben de kurcalamak istemiyorum altindan bir yokluk, bir hiçlik çikarsa, sen belki dayanirsin buna, fakat ben dayanamam, yasayamam.Müsaade edin bana hayattan ayriliyorum, kendi istegimle ayriliyorum."
Author: Oğuz Atay

33. "(...)bana bak saydam etek!bana bak güzel bacaklar!kiminle konustugunun farkinda misin?beni hemen anlamalisin,çünkü ben kitap degilim,çünkü ben öldükten sonra kimse beni okuyamaz,yasarken anlasilmaya mecburum,ben Van Gogh resmi degilim,öldükten sonra beni müzeye koyamazsiniz,beni tanimalisiniz ki benden bahsedin,çocuklariniza beni örnek gösterin,herkes zengin olmak yerine Hikmet olmak istesin,ah bir Hikmetim olsaydi desin(...)"
Author: Oğuz Atay

34. "Üçüncü Sarki'dan:cranium fibula radius sacrum patella carpus nasil ezberlenir allah'im arapça dua eden insanin latince kemikleri? saffet kulun anatomiden çakti, selim kulunla oynamayi birakti. alt katta bir kiraci daha: ecmel karakas ve gari mesru karisi (yavas söyle duymasinlar). bana yüz vermiyor bahçede güzel kizi (oysa bahçede geçirdim bütün yazi) dut agacina çikiyor benden kaçarak, "sen de arkasindan çiksana ahmak!" daha daha: pisirik, beceriksiz, korkak."
Author: Oğuz Atay

35. "Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her."You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend you over that table and break the club's no-penetration-in-the-lounge rule."
Author: Olivia Cunning

36. "Gördügünüz gibi Ölüm'üm ben, ama korkmaniz gerekmez, çünkü resimim de. Yine de benden korktugunuzu gözlerinizden okuyorum. Oynadiklari oyuna kendilerini kaptiran çocuklar gibi, benim gerçek olmadigimi bile bile, ölümün kendisiyle karsilasmis gibi dehsete kapilmaniz hosuma gidiyor. Bana baktikça, o kaçinilmaz son vakit gelip çatinca korkudan nasil altiniza dolduracaginizi seziyorsunuz. Bu bir saka degil; ölümle karsilastiginda, özellikle aslan huylu erkeklerin büyük çogunlugu, kendilerini koyuverirler. Binlerce kere naksettiginiz savas alanlari, sanildigi gibi kan, barut ve kizismis zirh degil, bu yüzden bok ve çürümüs et kokar."
Author: Orhan Pamuk

37. "[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road.(Opening address to the Mechanical Science Section, Meeting of the British Association, Manchester.)"
Author: Osborne Reynolds

38. "She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess so used to being ministered to that she no longer notices the servants and sees only a world where objects dumbly bend to her wishes, doors opening, faucets discharging cool water, delicious things appearing in her dish."
Author: Peter Trachtenberg

39. "Don't break the rules, just bend them to suit."
Author: POB Bismark

40. "Kau tidak mengabdi padaku man, tidak, man. Kalau kau cuma mengabdi padaku, kalau aku tewas kau tinggal hidup, kau mengabdi kepada siapa lagi? kau cari Bendoro baru, kalau dia juga tewas? Kau mengabdi pada tanah ini, tanah yang memberimu nasi dan air. Tapi para raja dan para pangeran dan para bupati sudah jual tanah keramat ini pada Belanda. Kau hanya baru sampai melawan para raja, para pangeran, dan para bupati. Satu keturunan tidak bakal selesai, man. Kalau para raja, pangeran, dan bupati sudah dikalahkan, baru kau bisa berhadapan pada Belanda. Entah berapa turunan lagi. Tapi kerja itu mesti dimulai."
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

41. "The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. "May I ask you a question?""Yes.""Have you ever thought you were Christ?""I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean."
Author: Ray Bradbury

42. "I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map…nights alone in motels in remote western towns where I know no one and no one I know knows where I am, nights with strange paintings and floral spreads and cable television that furnish a reprieve from my own biography, when in Benjamin's terms, I have lost myself though I know where I am. Moments when I say to myself as feet or car clear a crest or round a bend, I have never seen this place before. Times when some architectural detail on vista that has escaped me these many years says to me that I never did know where I was, even when I was home."
Author: Rebecca Solnit

43. "The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through."
Author: Sophocles

44. "A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
Author: Sophocles

45. "I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door."
Author: Stephen Merchant

46. "Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside."
Author: Vera Nazarian

47. "(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?"
Author: Victor Borge

48. "Of every aspect of the moor, the earth and stone and rain and fire, the wind is the strongest one in Near. Here on the outskirts of the village, the wind is always pressing close, making windows groan. It whispers and it howls and it sings. It can bend its voice and cast it into any shape, long and thin enough to slide beneath the door, stout enough to seem a thing of weight and breath and bone. "The wind was here when you were born, when I was born, when our house was built, when the Council was formed, and even when the Near Witch lived,"
Author: Victoria Schwab

49. "In the wide pile, by others heeded not,Hers was one sacred solitary spot,Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves containFor moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain."
Author: Walter Scott

50. "We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!"
Author: Yasser Arafat

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