Zitat des Tages über Gebogen / Bent:
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
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.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'
It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
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.
I have a mystical bent, and I pursue daily meditations that follow the liturgical calendar - what are called the 'daily offices' of the church.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.
When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.