The Bends Quotes

#1. Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Ed Koch

#2. My heart felt like a balloon that was filling too full, and I panicked. I might get the bends, the way scuba divers did when they surfaced too fast.

Janet Fitch

#3. As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we're like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can't see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it's there.

Jack Finney

#4. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

Joyce Cary

#5. The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

Tommy Lee

#6. Turning her body slightly to the left, he gently bends her knee, breaking eye contact to lick her slowly, from Venice to Trieste - then down the Croatian Coast, the length of Serenissima.

Kristen Caven

#7. The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

Ramakrishna

#8. He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.

Jodi Picoult

#9. 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

#10. Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

Victor Hugo

#11. The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

Matthew Henry

#12. Look for the hand that points the way,
And take the path where children play.
Then where the face with breath that sighs
Bends to admire its gleaming eyes,
You way is marked by lines of light
That mean escape from endless night.

Emily Rodda

#13. Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

John Milton

#14. 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

#15. Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Elizabeth I

#16. It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

Charles Saatchi

#17. Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Lynn Raye Harris

#18. Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own stale dew, then take that light.

Iain Banks

#19. Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.

Andrew Peterson

#20. Have I not had enough time with my brave warrior to learn that she bends without breaking, that her courage is her strength and her grace the light sustaining her heart?

Lucy Varna

#21. Love
not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

Vera Nazarian

#22. And I'm looking through the glass Where the light bends at the cracks And I'm screaming at the top of my lungs Pretending the echoes belong to someone - Someone I used to know.

James K.A. Smith

#23. Maximoff." His deep voice pitches me from a fantasy.
I lift my eyes.
He smiles.
"What?" I combat.
Farrow bends a knee. "Are you thinking about the philosophical meaning of the world or are you thinking about fucking me in the ass?

Krista Ritchie

#24. Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

Ramakrishna

#25. Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.

Frederick Lenz

#26. 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

#27. To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break ... I am ever tender and true.

Charlotte Bronte

#28. I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses. It's the body and its longing that bends the mind and teaches the eye to calculate the distance to one's desires so often out of reach.

Erik Valeur

#29. At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

Midge Ure

#30. Men everywhere were sacrificing at the altar of some beautiful woman in their life.

Bart Hopkins

#31. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Kahlil Gibran

#32. Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Shel Silverstein

#33. He practices exceptions and bends the rules.

Aporva Kala

#34. When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Gary Hamel

#35. Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't - some people do lead enchanted lives - but odds are that it will. Some time.

Robin McKinley

#36. That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#37. Whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.

John Calvin

#38. You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

Ferran Adria

#39. 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

#40. At certain times of the day, and at particular bends in the road or curves of the shore, Cyprus is still so lovely that it takes you by the throat.

Christopher Hitchens

#41. There is a difference between a challenge and a burden. One is something you can carry on your shoulders easily enough - the other is something, a big sack, that bends you double.

Alexander McCall Smith

#42. I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.

Ryan Reynolds

#43. The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer

#44. The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

Ameen Rihani

#45. 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

#46. Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.

Amit Ray

#47. Outside, a birch tree bends from the weight of the snow. it'll spring back up once the snow melts, back to its normal, upright self.
could that happen to me ?

Carrie Jones

#48. Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.

Robert Greene

#49. The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .

Rainer Maria Rilke

#50. Why the clay?" "That is also what I am," Vashet said. "Only that which bends can teach.

Patrick Rothfuss

#51. I watch as DJ easily bends down to slip under the ropes. He stands up to his full height and walks into the middle of the ring and my brain immediately drops right into my vagina.

Tara Sivec

#52. The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Isabella Bird

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

Marianne Williamson

#57. Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

Sapphire.

#58. If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.

David Jaber

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Enoch Powell

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

Confucius

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.

Emery Lord

#78. Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

Hannah More

#79. I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

Geena Davis

#80. He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.

Christopher Paolini

#81. Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Richard Whately

#82. Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.

R.A. Torrey

#83. The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men.

A.J. Durai

#84. Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.

Jacques Vallee

#85. Geography bends to the dictate of will.

Michelle Sagara

#86. To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.

Marshall McLuhan

#87. By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.

Walter Russell

#88. If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love.

Ayobami Adebayo

#89. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Theodore Parker

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. When the wind blows,the grass bends.

Confucius

#94. 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

#95. Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future...

RO Smit

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.

Lindsey Stirling

#100. 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