Top 81 Bend Or Break Quotes
#1. 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
#2. When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
Robert Venturi
#3. Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
#4. I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star
I've got faith
I've got faith
Faith of the heart
Rod Stewart
#6. When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.
Nora Roberts
#7. 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
#8. Reeds are strong, you know, Ulean whispered to me. They bend during storms, rather than break.
I blinked. Yes, but reeds won't hold up a house.
They make a good raft, so don't write them off so fast.
Yasmine Galenorn
#9. I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.
Kristin Hunter
#10. Seems like the kind that's easier to break than bend, which makes her no use to us.
Skye Callahan
#11. 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.
Olivia Cunning
#12. Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don't break when battered by a storm
Melanie Greenberg
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis De Sales
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#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. Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break.
Colleen Hoover
#22. Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
Anna Cora Mowatt
#23. 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
#24. Waiting with too few men, and with every instinct telling me to run. Every instinct, except for that one to hold or break, but never bend. I
Mark Lawrence
#25. What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.
Janet Morris
#26. This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.
Artur Davis
#27. You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!
Jon Bon Jovi
#28. For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. every instinct telling me to run. Every instinct, except for that one to hold or break, but never bend.
Anonymous
#30. The air between us crackles like it always has, like it has its own energy or frequency. One of us is going to bend. One of us is going to break.
Lauren Blakely
#31. We must bend with change, or we will break.
Jayne Castel
#32. It's like I've been stuffed full of twigs and all I have to do is bend and my body will break. All the guilt, the anger, the frustration, the pent-up aggression inside of me has found an outlet and now it can't be controlled.
Tahereh Mafi
#33. No. No he didn't break you, my dear." Inhuman eyes probed hers delicately. "The most he managed was a bend here and there. Apparently he has forgotten that the beat of the hammer in the flame's heart only strengthens a good blade.
Angela Knight
#35. Cause when push comes to shove,
You taste what you're made of.
You might bend till you break,
Cause it's all you can take.
On your knees, you look up,
Decide you've had enough.
You get mad, you get strong,
Wipe your hands, shake it off.
And you stand ...
Rascal Flatts
#36. I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.
Daphne Gottlieb
#37. Though storms blow and the earth shake
Limber trees may bend, but the stiff will break."
Chief Bending Tree (Mystical Mountain Magic)
Guy Brooke
#38. I am the palm and this is only wind. I will bend, but I will not break.
Peter V. Brett
#39. I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.
Angela Merkel
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
Frederick Lenz
#44. Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend
Stephen King
#45. Either find a way, or make one ... You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#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. 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
#48. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break
Jane Wells
#49. 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
#50. Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.
Donna Gillespie
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.
Jacqueline Carey
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
Bil Keane
#59. Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.
Cassandra Clare
#60. We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room
David Blatt
#62. You either bend, or you break.
Suppress your ego to stay happy.
Manoj Arora
#63. It is funnier to bend things than to break them.
W.C. Fields
#64. As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.
Cody McFadyen
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.
David Blatt
#70. 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
#71. Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
Chanakya
#72. No matter how our hearts break, we bend toward life, don't we? We bend toward hope.
Anonymous
#73. Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. 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
#75. I was going to break from the inside out if he didn't bend me into nameless shapes
C.D. Reiss
#76. Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.
Steve McQueen
#77. Be flexible like trees; when life's winds blow bend, but do not break.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. 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
#80. You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.
Helen Reddy
#81. 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
