Bent But Not Broken Quotes

#1. Time ground to a halt and the trees whispered in the language of God and nature about steadfastness and resilience - gently saying that one could be constantly stirred yet not moved, bent but not broken, that a thing well grounded and deeply rooted could ever stand.

Charles M. Blow

#2. You stand for what is right-
for the patient and the staff.
Pressures of work may down you,
maybe bent but not broken.

Mujel Hasan

#3. Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical.

Tim Ferriss

#4. Bent but never broken; down but never out.

Annetta Ribken

#5. There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.

Craig Keen

#6. I was bent but never broken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Andy Partridge

#8. If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right." The pen fell from Trenton's mouth to the floor, and he bent down to pick it up. "Uh . . . any, uh . . . any special font?

Jamie McGuire

#9. The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Robert Jordan

#10. There are truths and lies and there are things in between, murky waters where light gets bent and broken.

Nadia Hashimi

#11. Every day, entrepreneurs act on their assumptions. Should you?

Lisa A. Mininni

#12. With temerity and defiance, obstinance and patience, she chipped away at every hard edge of me until there was nothing left but the truths I feared. The bent and broken.

K. Bromberg

#13. I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

Jim Butcher

#14. Vampires are fond of their games. But the games that They play are different than the variants that I'm familiar with. The rules were made to be bent, broken, shattered - and somebody always gets hurt.
Always.

Nenia Campbell

#15. There isn't a cure for consciousness, and feeling bad about ourselves reflects the evidence that there's something terribly wrong with this world and the way it affects our personal reality.

Daniel Marques

#16. Yeah, the world here is full of rules and most of them need to be followed. Some can be bent," I said, and continued with a smile, "and others can be broken.

Rajat Mishra

#17. A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Robert Breault

#18. Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

Jennifer Weiner

#19. We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Pink

#20. [Anger] gave him the soul to keep fighting no matter how many times the world seemed bent on destroying him. He may be a broken young man, but he would never be a defeated one

Hannah Heath

#21. Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

#22. Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

Jayson Blair

#23. The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

Michael Bloomberg

#24. Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Fulton J. Sheen

#25. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.

Charles Dickens

#26. Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#27. They lived in this fashion for most of the year before the credit line of her patience finally reached its limit.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#28. It just started raining here in the Philippines. I love the sound of rain on a tin roof. It sounds so majestic.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#29. We're not broken baby...we're just bent. And bent's okay. Bent means that we're just figuring things out.

K. Bromberg

#30. The first step to achieving all your goals is getting out of bed. Coffee and toast are optional.

Peter James West

#31. He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude ...

Hiromu Arakawa

#32. There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

Raquel Welch

#33. I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

Charles Dickens

#34. He [The Bent One] has left you this way because a bent hnau can do more evil than a broken one.

C.S. Lewis

#35. The bent but unbroken ones.

Rick Yancey

#36. When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#37. For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

Vitruvius

#38. Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!

Sue Limb

#39. The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#40. As someone once said, we're in the world but not of the world, so we can be for the world.

C. Christopher Smith

#41. Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.

Alyson Noel

#42. Bent
like the branches of a tree
broken
like the pieces of my heart
cracked
like the seventeenth moon
shattered
like the glass in the window
the day we met

Kami Garcia

#43. Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

Johnny Depp

#44. Cutting is not stupid. Stupid is being bad to someone and get them to the point of bleeding

Demi Lovato