Bended Knees Quotes

#1. People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#2. I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.

Mahesh Bhatt

#3. To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.

Jenny Han

#4. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it's instead like a muscle that tires.

Cal Newport

#5. I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!

NeNe Leakes

#6. This isn't important. Important happens on bended knees and is breathed on last breaths with hands clutched tight, hearts tighter. This is just a distraction.

Anonymous

#7. The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette.
Which is to say: there are no rules.
Or, rather, there are plenty of rules, but they ask, on bended knees, to be broken.

Amanda Palmer

#8. The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.

Craig Ferguson

#9. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.

Chris Pine

#10. I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

Pope Francis

#11. I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.

Bernie Sanders

#12. The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.

Robin Hobb

#13. He looked like Thor. A shaved-head Thor with SEMPER FI emblazoned on one arm.

Anna Banks

#14. Aren't autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don't we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.

Frederick Weisel

#15. Elayne", she said softly as they resumed their climb, "if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!

Robert Jordan

#16. Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot

#17. 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