Quotes About Bent

After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual.

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Nor does their understanding, which is blinded and bent only on avarice, perceive that this very thing might be more safely done by means of science.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

There's no evidence that coaches with a conservative bent are better coaches or more likely to get jobs.

Young man,' she said to Bill Forrester, 'you are a person of taste and imagination. Also, you have the will power of ten men; otherwise you would not dare veer away from the common flavors listed on the menu and order, straight out, without quibble or reservation, such an unheard-of things as lime-vanilla ice.' He bowed his head solemnly to her. 'Come sit with me, both of you,' she said. 'We'll talk of strange ice creams and such things as we seem to have a bent for.

The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

It was a hot day and the Ferris wheel was turning in the air like a thermometer bent in a circle and given the grace of music.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

Ancient of Days, who sittest throned in glory,To thee all knees are bent, all voices pray.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

A story and an arrow must be straight, and the words and a bow bent to them.

Bonner leans his forehead against hers. Zig when they think you'll zag. Creation's Rule Number Two. What's Number One? Els asks, willing to be this bent soul's straight man. Zag when they think you'll zig.

The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose

My body's weird and bent in different ways, but it's handy for the tango!

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a bent towards proposing American-led solutions for foreign problems. People get paid big money in Washington to come up with ways that America can fix problems overseas, and they are not always right.