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I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again! — Ewan McGregor

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. — George Ade

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it. — Wallace Stegner

Why are you going to let people who are hell-bent on not forgiving you keep you from something that could actually be great? — Katie Cotugno

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep. — Sarojini Naidu

She rolled over and sat up as he bent, tearing off his boots. "Whatcha doing?"
"Getting naked."
"I like that. — Laurann Dohner

The bent but unbroken ones. — Rick Yancey

Does it hurt?"
He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. "Only when I laugh."
"I'll try not to be funny."
"Epic fail, beautiful. — Rachel Caine

If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven — Dante Alighieri

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders. — Bernard Rudofsky

Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers. — David Mitchell

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn. — Jeremy Scott

Russia is bent on world domination. — Margaret Thatcher

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

I am bent and brooken but i hope into a better shape — Kami Garcia

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

And him, in that killer suit, his head bent, his eyes shielded behind his aviators. No comment, the caption says. But the finger says plenty. — Katy Evans

We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far. — Holly Black

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. — Mencius

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better
behavior is expected of them. — Jane Austen

All fingers are not same in length but when they are bent all stands equal. Life becomes easy when we bend and adjust to situations. — Herryicm

I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then went out. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. — Friedrich Schiller

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. — Jack Kerouac

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry

Noblest minds are easiest bent. — Homer

There is not a man born among us who dreams - at first - of service, although in the end, many are bent that way. — Michelle Sagara

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. — Uri Geller

I considered sex work, but then I bent over and looked at my asshole in a mirror. Nobody was going to pay me for access to that thing. — Jeremy Robert Johnson

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago. — Bent Saether

She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest. — V.E Schwab

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy. — Hiroko Sakai

This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them. — Terry Pratchett

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent. — Nick Offerman

If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it. — Stephen Hales

Liberty coincides with heroism. It is the asceticism of the great man, the bow bent to the breaking-point. — Albert Camus

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold

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. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. — Franz Grillparzer

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. — Phillips Brooks

She learned the same lesson I had learned though - if someone is hell-bent on self-destruction, there isn't a lot you can do to change their mind. — Mia Sheridan

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The big man bent to her ear. "You know you have to gamble, don't you, to get what you want? So what are you prepared to lose? — Anna Hope

The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude. — Ravi Zacharias

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent. — Val Kovalin

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. — George Santayana

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen

she is bent under the weight of her burden — Patricia McCormick

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it. — Paul Henderson

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground — Rich Mullins

In answer, he bent his head toward hers.
"Wait." She ducked away from the kiss.
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing unless you want it. — Tessa Dare

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? — Madame De Stael

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true. — Curtis Sittenfeld

They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: "It's a leg all right," he said. — Shirley Jackson

Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check. — Frank Zappa

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. — Tug McGraw

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master — Bent Larsen

batter hell-bent on hitting a home run. — Joey K.

Hell bent and beautiful, you're my heart. — Maggi Myers

Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple."
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences. — Rachel Hartman

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern. — Mickey Wyte

The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance. — Garry Fitchett

Afterward Joe Biden greeted me outside the green room, falling on bent knee to kiss my hand. (Who says chivalry is dead!) — Hillary Rodham Clinton

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. — Walt Whitman

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill. — Bob Dylan

I get whiskey bent and hell bound. — Hank Williams Jr.

Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard. — Chris Bent

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat. — Dean Young

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch! — Jerry Coleman

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven. — William Shakespeare

He bent lower to whisper in her ear, I love you, queen of beauty and love. — Melanie Dickerson

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. — Audrey Niffenegger

Bent but never broken; down but never out. — Annetta Ribken

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think? — Mark Gatiss

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply. — Edmund Phelps

Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned. — Meljean Brook

As a twig is bent the tree inclines. — Virgil

'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen. — Manny Farber

I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say. — Larry The Cable Guy

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. — John Negroponte

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell

If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate. — Anita Shreve

So spake the Son, and into terrour chang'd His count'nance too severe to be beheld And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies. — John Milton

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. — Thornton Wilder

We're not broken baby...we're just bent. And bent's okay. Bent means that we're just figuring things out. — K. Bromberg

we've been weakened by politicians bent on preserving their careers rather than preserving the country. We — Marcus Richardson

The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching. — Jim Afremow

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same. — Clarence Thomas

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

With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide, — Pat Buchanan

Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks? — Chris Bent

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

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much. — Bent Larsen

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. — Thomas Campion

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches. — Albert Schweitzer

The palm trees on the median swayed and bent, threatening to snap. But they wouldn't. They were strong enough to take it.

And so was I. — Michelle Hodkin