Bend Quotes

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. (Helen Keller)
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. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. View quote
Albert Camus
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. View quote
William Congreve
I bend and do not break. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
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. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. View quote
David Trimble
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. View quote
Alexander Pope
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. (Dylan Thomas)
If God wanted us to bend over he would put diamonds on the floor. View quote
Joan Rivers
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! View quote
Yasser Arafat
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that. View quote
Eartha Kitt
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality. View quote
Christopher Meloni
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface – trace the object – then bend the object – leaving some part of it attached. View quote
Jasper Johns
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn. View quote
Ramakrishna
There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man. View quote
Billy Joel
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman. View quote
Robert Graves
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. (Robert Graves)
If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act. View quote
John Kerry
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. View quote
Francis de Sales
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another. View quote
James Mill