As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.
The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat. , Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede. ]
Follow only beauty and obey only love.
If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.
Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.
For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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.
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.
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.
Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.