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

Richard Rohr

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Elizabeth Lev

#9. 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

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

Terence McKenna

#11. What I remember I cannot tell
though it is there in all that I say

W.S. Merwin

#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. When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

William H. Macy

#14. Fourteen minutes later he had finished. He had presented the

Jo Nesbo

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

Alexander Vandegrift

#16. 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

#17. You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.

Carrie Underwood

#18. Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Charles Bradlaugh