Top 56 Bend But Not Break Quotes
#1. He had been through hell and survived, and his reward had come in the form of a woman who could bend but not break, challenge but not conform, submit but not surrender. Naiya was his. Totally, utterly, and irrevocably. And he would never let her go.
Sarah Castille
#2. I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.
David K. Bernard
#3. It is funnier to bend things than to break them.
W.C. Fields
#4. I am the palm and this is only wind. I will bend, but I will not break.
Peter V. Brett
#5. No matter how our hearts break, we bend toward life, don't we? We bend toward hope.
Anonymous
#6. Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
Chanakya
#7. We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
Zack Snyder
#8. We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.
David Blatt
#9. The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
Pink
#10. Sometimes it is good to breach the rules
so as to achieve an end,
Yet keep an edge and not break or bend.
Mira Midha
#11. But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if you're strong enough," said Jace firmly.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won't break.
Fred Rogers
#13. As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.
Cody McFadyen
#14. 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 horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.
Robert Graves
#15. Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#16. Fate is like a storm. You can let it bend you, or you can make it break you. One way or the other, the storm always has its way. Now our storm is beginning, Olivia.
R. Lee Smith
#17. Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
John Donne
#18. Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
Anna Cora Mowatt
#19. Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break.
Colleen Hoover
#20. Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.
Dorothy Parker
#21. Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send
Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take
And come back together again with a whole new meaning
In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent
((Did You Get My Message?))
Jason Mraz
#23. As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Isaac Barrow
#24. When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis De Sales
#25. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
#26. Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.
Ilona Andrews
#27. There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison,
Stephen Harper
#28. I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.
Kristin Hunter
#29. He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I could break it. Not really break it, but see how far it would bend. I had to test it, because what good was something that couldn't be tested?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break
Jane Wells
#31. You either bend, or you break.
Suppress your ego to stay happy.
Manoj Arora
#33. We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room
David Blatt
#34. Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.
Cassandra Clare
#35. Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
Bil Keane
#37. Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#38. If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
Naomi Watts
#39. Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend
Stephen King
#40. Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.
Jacqueline Carey
#41. I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
Samantha Power
#42. Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#43. Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.
Donna Gillespie
#44. Oh, you know I'm only human;
I bend and fall and break
You cut me and I bleed
I'm a mess for you to make
So forget the words and give me deeds
My heart was yours to take.
Emery Lord
#45. To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.
Burne Hogarth
#46. Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile ... it an grow new life.
John Green
#47. Either find a way, or make one ... You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#48. I wanted to eat her, like a wolf in a fairy tale. I wanted to crush her to my chest until she was part of me, her atoms commingling with my atoms. I wanted to bend her, break her and then watch her beg for more.
Sierra Simone
#49. The women that were worth that kind of heart-break wouldn't let you fall for them so easy. They wouldn't bend over your couch, or allow you to charm them into their bedroom on the first night - or even the tenth.
Jamie McGuire
#50. You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.
Helen Reddy
#53. In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.
Edward Witten
#54. Be flexible like trees; when life's winds blow bend, but do not break.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.
Steve McQueen
#56. I was going to break from the inside out if he didn't bend me into nameless shapes
C.D. Reiss
