bend Quotes and Quotations
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bend Quotes and Quotations
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. Aesop | top
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Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps. Ernest Bramah | top
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Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. James L. Buckley | top
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened. Ted Demme | top
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It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. Cory Doctorow | top
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Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you. Richard Donner | top
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Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind. Elizabeth I | top
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My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? Black Elk | top
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I bend and do not break. Jean de La Fontaine | top
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The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure. Ruben Hinojosa | top
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He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. Douglas Horton | top
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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. Robert Green Ingersoll | top
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson | top
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The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. Helen Hunt Jackson | top
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert Kennedy | top
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. | top
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. James Russell Lowell | top
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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny. Kate O'Brien | top
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. Boris Pasternak | top
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And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. Sydney Pollack | top
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales | top
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Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK. David Soul | top
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I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was. Sylvester Stallone | top
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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. Thorstein Veblen | top
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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. William Whewell | top