Top 100 Bend Quotes
#1. After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.
Rick Riordan
#2. It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Pope John XXIII
#3. When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want.
John Mayer
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
E. Stanley Jones
#8. 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
#9. The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them. The story doesn't have to end. You can stay in this world, this world you love, as long as you want, as long as you keep thinking of new stories.
Rainbow Rowell
#10. Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.
Tom Hodgkinson
#11. When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.
Nora Roberts
#12. I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.
Jay Kay
#13. Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.
Aeschylus
#14. The prevailing note in the Amazon is one of monotony," thought Kenneth Grubb, "the same green lines the river-bank, the same gloom fills the forest. . . . Each successive bend in the river is rounded in expectancy, only to reveal another identical stretch ahead.
Greg Grandin
#15. 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
#16. Change is just a bend in the road, not the end of the road.
Robin L. Smith
#17. I have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#18. The problem with deciding to bend the rules was trying to figure out just how far you could bend them.
Patricia Briggs
#19. When a man fights a crowd to retrieve your missing shoe, and stops everything in motion to bend upon his knee and return it to your foot, you have found your true prince.
Jenna Alatari
#20. I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.
John Quincy Adams
#21. I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush
#22. When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.
Ilchi Lee
#23. My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.
Anupam Kher
#24. Death is not the end. It's just a bend to transcend.-RVM
R.v.m.
#25. Yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
Herman Melville
#26. You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe lost walls should crack and fall down
Kahlil Gibran
#27. Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.
Robert Creeley
#28. When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique ...
Brad Paisley
#29. I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.
Jack Gantos
#31. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
#32. I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.
Kristin Hunter
#33. Seems like the kind that's easier to break than bend, which makes her no use to us.
Skye Callahan
#34. The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
Richard Baxter
#35. I don't want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I'm not healed, but for this moment, I'm better.
Kerry Cohen
#36. You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
Monique Coleman
#37. Control.... is not what we need.
What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.
Patricia Pearson
#38. There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
Keith Richards
#39. She's not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.
Veronica Roth
#40. Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.
Edith Wharton
#41. Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.
Buck Brannaman
#43. There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
Angelina Grimke
#44. The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.
Robert Jordan
#45. Our lives are a continuing journey - and we must learn and grow at every bend as we make our way, sometimes stumbling, but always moving, toward the finest within us.
Gerald Coffee
#46. In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace
and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
Junot Diaz
#47. 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
#48. The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.
Temple Grandin
#49. The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all.
I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.
Holly Black
#50. Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#51. My future seemed to stretch before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the very best does. - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#52. A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.
Herman Wouk
#53. If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
Christopher Meloni
#54. Sometimes in life, you just have to bend over.
Jeri Estes
#55. One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.
Sri Aurobindo
#56. Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases.
Harper Lee
#57. 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
#58. Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
Catherine Marshall
#59. Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#60. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#61. ...holding your hand out and making a gesture that, in the surreal parrallel universe of the classroom would suggest that instruction, but anywhere else would be taken for a drunkard's poorly achieved impression of an epileptic spider failing to negotiate a hairpin bend.
Phil Beadle
#62. Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.
Mary Shelley
#63. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
Steve Jobs
#64. Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
James Randi
#65. As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#66. Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
#67. The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.
Ryan Lilly
#68. The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.
Amie Kaufman
#69. Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
C.S. Lewis
#70. 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.
David Trimble
#71. When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
Robert Venturi
#72. She had been searching for a way to justify her own choices. It was the first time I realized that we all bend and shape our stories to fit our own ends. It was certainly no the last.
Greer Macallister
#73. Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
Mirza Tahir Ahmad
#74. He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!'
'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?
Stephen Arnott
#75. 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
#76. But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.
Susane Colasanti
#77. 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
#78. When I see birches bend to left and right ... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
Robert Frost
#79. I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.
Martin Zweig
#80. But love isn't something that can simply bend around all barriers. It isn't a coat you can wear for all occasions.
Charlotte Stein
#81. Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#82. I was moving from worried to scared, and I could see terrified waving at me from just around the next bend in the road.
Gini Koch
#83. I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
Conor Oberst
#84. To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
Isaac D'Israeli
#85. If only there were a river of courage, - Rahel whispered. I would bend down, cup the water in my hand and drink.
Jane Kurtz
#86. The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
Jean Giraudoux
#88. Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.
Tony Hillerman
#89. Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
Mark McKinnon
#90. Even when presented with evidence of my own productivity I think that the people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.
Lena Dunham
#91. The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.
Knute Rockne
#92. You can throw a fit and cry at every bend in the road, or you can trust the process and learn to enjoy it.
Leigh Hershkovich
#93. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. These
John Steinbeck
#94. I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
Pablo Neruda
#95. Your pleasure belongs to me." He tugged her hair again and let his free hand find one of her breasts, twisting it and making her writhe. "Bend over. Grab your ankles.
Lexi Blake
#96. At the last moment, she remembered that her Master might be watching her and, knowing that good girls bend at the knees while bad girls bend at the waist, she picked up the cigar butt, as it were, in style.
Sorin Suciu
#97. I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#98. That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.
Stephen Kendrick
#99. A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
E. Stanley Jones
#100. I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant ...
Darren Hayes
