Bended Knee Quotes

#1. He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.

Stephen Fry

#2. You don't go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

Terence McKenna

#3. We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Richard Rohr

#4. It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying we need you to come back.

Edward Mortimer

#5. Everett realized what he was going to have to do.
He was, much against his better judgment, going to have to seek out Miss Longfellow and beg her
on bended knee and with flowers, no doubt
to come work for him.

Jen Turano

#6. I should live my life on bended knee
If I can't control my destiny
You've gotta have a scheme
You've gotta have a plan
In the world of today, for tomorrow's man
No control

David Bowie

#7. Holy Spirit, please overrule in my life that I will never quench the fire that You have caused to burn. Let me never pour water on wood You may want to ignite. I pray on bended knee that You will come unquenched into my heart and stay there without any hindrance from me. In Jesus's name, amen.

R.T. Kendall

#8. No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

Jonathan Kozol

#9. The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

Alexander Vandegrift

#10. Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

George W. Bush

#11. In the Renaissance world of arranged marriages, there were no romantic proposals on bended knee - only notaries and contracts.

Elizabeth Lev

#12. True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all
Which men need render; all which God can bear.
What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
A crow upon the sky.

Philip James Bailey

#13. The Kiss to End All Kisses
There's supposed to be 'a moment' that every girl dreams about her whole life. You know, the one;some guy on bended knee offering you his heart. Well, I was never that kind of girl.

Ali Harris

#14. Happy Monday! Live without fear! Face your fears and see them as an OPPORTUNITY for strength and growth. You'll see, once you face them, they disappear!

Tracey Edmonds

#15. I tried to make each half sandwich last for three full bites, though I could easily have popped them into my mouth whole.

Ellen Emerson White

#16. Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

Ava DuVernay

#17. I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

Anna D. Shapiro

#18. It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Joyce Maynard

#19. Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.

Pope Francis

#20. We see what we believe, not the other way around.

Seth

#21. I can't wait to taste you." He whispered against my stomach, allowing his hot breath to spill over my chest, sharpen the goose bumps pricking my skin. "I've always wondered what you taste like." I could tell he was speaking mostly to himself, but his words drove me a lot insane.

Penny Reid

#22. I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

Melissa McCarthy

#23. The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

C.S. Lewis

#24. Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Vinod Khosla

#25. Let your plans be assured from the end to the beginning. Let it be clear that the end is hopeful. Wake up.

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

#27. I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

Josh Groban

#28. My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

Jeb Bush