I May Be Bent But Not Broken Quotes

#1. The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Matthew Arnold

#2. One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

Salvador Plascencia

#3. 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

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

Robert Jordan

#5. 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

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

Nadia Hashimi

#7. We don't give 'em no respect..none!

Jerome James

#8. 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

#9. Being you is the only thing worth spotlighting.

Nick Jonas

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?

Kristen Henderson

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

Robert Breault

#14. 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

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

Pink

#16. 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

#17. [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

#18. For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. 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

#21. All is changed about me, sir; I must change too.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Annetta Ribken

#23. The eye is easily frightened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. 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

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

K. Bromberg

#26. If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#27. I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.

Kurt Sutter

#28. 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

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

C.S. Lewis

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Alyson Noel

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

E. M. Forster

#37. 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

#38. Each humid, tropic day is stillborn, and does not breathe, however lustily pregnant the night that gave it birth.

Beryl Markham

#39. The bent but unbroken ones.

Rick Yancey

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

Tim Ferriss

#41. 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

#42. I was bent but never broken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. 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