Bending Quotes

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.