Top 64 Bends Over Quotes
#1. As the sun starts to rise, I watch as Raffaele bends over Enzo's body, the two of us mourning the prince we both loved.
Marie Lu
#2. Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud
Sapphire.
#3. No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.
John C. Maxwell
#4. Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers 'Grow, grow'.
Midrash Rabbah
#5. The heaven of stars bends over me in silence, a harp through which the wind of time still whispers music some hand has hushed but left there trembling-- where time has made such music!
John Hall Wheelock
#6. If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.
Penelope Ashe
#7. Not only is [a mother] entrusted with the guardianship of the intellect and character of the world's statesmen and philosophers, but her gentle presence, as she bends over the cradle, and the silent influence of her daily life are shaping the entire moral character of the coming generation.
C.E. Sargent
#9. Then Paul bends over me, cradles me in his arms, as if he's sheltering me from the whole world. I close my eyes, and despite everything, I think I've never felt so safe.
Claudia Gray
#10. Raffe throws me a dirty look. He bends over and swipes his arm behind my knees, lifting me up in his embrace.
'I can go with one of the locusts.' I stiffen in his arms and try to lean as far away from him as I can.
'The hell you will.' He runs a couple of steps before spreading his wings.
Susan Ee
#11. I stare at the television as Belle bends over to feed a bird. Then I lean forward, hoping for a nice cleavage shot ...
I'm going to hell, aren't I?
I can't help it. I'm desperate. Frustrated.
Horny
Emma Chase
#12. There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?
Thomm Quackenbush
#13. Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists.
Richard Dawkins
#15. Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future...
RO Smit
#16. If the law is malleable, Mr. Senlin, if it bends and conforms to man, then man will become resolute in his flaws. The law exists to give shape to man's ideals. When you think about it, doesn't mercy serve the wicked at the expense of the law?
Josiah Bancroft
#17. When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front that hums and bisects both your ears, making eyes very alert. The light bends toward chalky blue. Your skin aches. At last: something real.
Thomas Pynchon
#19. All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.
Lindsey Stirling
#20. No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.
Harry Chapin
#21. In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
Cyril Connolly
#22. I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
Bode Miller
#23. I'm not Prince Charming. I'm the bad guy that sneaks into the castle when Prince Charming is off singing songs in the woods. I'm the one with the big cock that bends needy Cinderella over. And I'm the one that makes her scream until her throat's raw and she can't sing a note.
Kenya Wright
#24. A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.
Magha
#25. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.
Ilie Nastase
#27. He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
Laozi
#28. In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#29. When the wind blows,the grass bends.
Confucius
#30. It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it bends toward justice, even if it is long?
Kelly J. Cogswell
#31. You're perfect,aren't you?"
"I am a werewolf," he says between bites. He bends his head.
"That just gives you a totally good excuse for your pathetic temper."
He wiggles his eyebrows. "True.
Carrie Jones
#32. Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.
Vladimir Nabokov
#33. When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
John Gay
#34. When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
Libba Bray
#35. A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.
Emery Lord
#36. Just as the ocean wears away the rocks and bends the contour of the shoreline to it's will, so it washes over a man's mind, smoothing the sharp edges, knocking off the conceits, flattening the prejudices so that he is left with a different instrument with which to govern his life.
Frank Mulville
#37. Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
Friedrich Schiller
#38. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.
Michelle Moran
#40. Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side
and but awaits our command.
Neale Donald Walsch
#41. My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.
Sarah Lafleur
#42. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
Charles Caleb Colton
#43. When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.
Elizabeth Charles
#44. They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. "Buy yourself some chocolates, Tom."
It's what she'd say to him as a kid with a twenty cent coin.
Melina Marchetta
#45. The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
Confucius
#46. But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
Alphonse De Lamartine
#47. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Edwin Meese
#48. Success is not always a straight road; it has bumps, bends, and hidden beauties.
Debasish Mridha
#49. It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
Pindar
#50. The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.
Alfred Bertram Guthrie
#51. The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
Bertolt Brecht
#52. I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;
I'm a Socrates of small fury.
The waves bends with the fish. I'm taught
As water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,
I can hear light on a dry day.
The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.
Theodore Roethke
#53. The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.
Tommy Lee
#54. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
Charles Baudelaire
#55. The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...
A.R. Ammons
#56. We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand.
Tracy K. Smith
#57. If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell
#58. Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
Alex Berenson
#59. A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and painfully as a silhouetted widow in Leningrad drawing water from the whiteness of a frozen canal.
William T. Vollmann
#60. Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil.
Nancy B. Brewer
#61. You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
Charles Baudelaire
#62. He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.
Roger Chamberlain
#63. This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!
Thomas Moore
#64. No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.
Marianne Williamson
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