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Seems like the kind that's easier to break than bend, which makes her no use to us.
Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
It is funnier to bend things than to break them.
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
twisted her words into
The soul must bend to endure.
She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.
Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
Buffeted but not broken.
If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.
Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
Why should I bend for something which I deserve. Give it in my hands!
So be careful when you bend over.
The most straight seems curved.
We must bend with change, or we will break.
But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility.
To stand up straight - not straightened
A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.
You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them,
If God wanted us to bend over he would put diamonds on the floor
I like my boyfriends to bend over, Robert.
A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
Bend when you must. Pull when you must. Both are an offering. When you bend, be at peace; when you pull, do so gently.
soul it shaped. Laurel
Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.
It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
Crooked is the path to eternity.
screwed blued and tattooed
Bend like the sapling you are. With time we shall find your oaken core.
There are degrees of screwed.
I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - 'cause I was already bent part way over.
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.
Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
As deformed as a grotesque potato,
I get whiskey bent and hell bound.
While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.
We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent
Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.
The kind of people who can't bend without breaking
Don't confuse deformed with cute.
Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.
Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
The stubbornest of wills
Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron,
O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,
Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.
The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched.
Straight, huh? You know, funny thing is, often the straightest of trees have crooked roots.
Squeezed back. Or, more likely, someone
When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.
I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.
Inside every bent stick there is a bow, and in the wake of every arrow's passing there lies a story.
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
There's something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
Try to grow straight, and life will bend you.
Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
You bore ne rigid.
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want.
The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.
Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
out. May propped the
the wrinkled sleeve of the head
adversity bends the heart as fire bends the stubborn steel, and those who are no longer their own governors, and the denizens of their own free independent state, must crouch before strangers.
Bending from side to side helps you avoid obstacles in racing.
Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.
I was going to break from the inside out if he didn't bend me into nameless shapes
Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.
I do not want to be folded
for where I am folded,
there I am a lie.
I would not bend.
They could not make me Pliable.
My mind was strong.
My mind was mine.
We're all broken.
If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell
Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves.
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
Heart twisted. You're the bravest person I've ever met.
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
No matter how our hearts break, we bend toward life, don't we? We bend toward hope.
My head is turned by every eye
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Learn to bend with the wind.
Ash? Get bent and die.
Bending instead of breaking," he repeats. "That's probably always a better option if you can take it, isn't it?
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn
I am reassured to know that the straightness of my grain is not a precondition of usefulness to God. And I am humbled to see that out of the twistedness of my wounds, he designs for me a special place of service.
Stretched to the breaking point by all that now stood between them, but at the same time refusing to break.
Laid out. It has the most beautiful
She seemed to fold into herself, like a pleated wing. Her pain antagonized me. I wanted to open her up, crisp her edges, ram a stick down that hunched and curving spine, force her to stand erect and spit the misery out on the streets. But she held it in where it could lap up into her eyes.