Bend Quotes

“Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend”
― Munia Khan

“You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Those who cannot conquer must bend the knee. They must find strength, or serve those of us who have. You are my generals. I will send you out: my hunting dogs, my wolves with iron teeth. When a city closes its gates in fear, you will destroy it. When they make roads and walls, you will cut them, pull down the stones. When a man raises a sword or bow against your men, you will hang him from a tree. Keep Karakorum in your minds as you go. This white city is the heart of the nation, but you are the right arm, the burning brand. Find me new lands, gentlemen. Cut a new path. Let their women weep a sea of tears and I will drink it all.”
― Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver

“True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I don't break the rules, I simply bend them in my favor.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it; humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”
― Ken Poirot

“The wind is blowing. Don’t bend if you want to please him.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“I was bent but never broken.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We are cooper, kanchi. They can bend us and twist us but they can't break us.”
― Sonali Dev, A Change of Heart

“You’ve got to be careful when you let the other guy anchor. You have to prepare yourself psychically to withstand the first offer. If the other guy’s a pro, a shark, he’s going to go for an extreme anchor in order to bend your reality. Then, when they come back with a merely absurd offer it will seem reasonable, just like an expensive $400 iPhone seems reasonable after they mark it down from a crazy $600.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“You are a nymph, Iris. You can read the tides; you can change currents. But this current, this swift course, cannot be changed. Well I know metal, Princess. And I know that any steel that does not bend is fated to break.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Broken Throne

“You either bend, or you break.
Suppress your ego to stay happy.”
― Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

“To deserve a standing ovation, you should not bend, you should stand”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“So this is the trick to growing in your career: whatever you hear, read, learn from outside your industry...don’t think literally...think laterally about how you will apply it to your work. This will bend minds.”
― Richie Norton

“It is easier to ‘bend’ children than to mend adults.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Bend yourself cause you love them and they will keep bending you until you break cause they probably don't.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Death is not the end but a bend, therefore do not lament over it.”
― pranita deshpande

“Bend your head only when you help to get up.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At that age where if something I'm holding falls, I just stand there crying & begging it to come in my hand on its own coz too tired to bend.”
― Nitya Prakash

“One thing that doesn't get burned with your dead body is your backbone, don't bend it for any dash, indeed a bone shall crack rather shall never bend”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Every time you bend, you break civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Break, don't bend.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Distribution of weight is preferable to balancing everything on the head of a pin.”
― Psixaristw

“The tree that bends down escapes the storm...!!!”
― M.Rehan Behleem

“Knowledge makes you bend but keeps you from breaking.”
― Abhijit Kar Gupta, Scientific Computing in Python

“I must not bend great things to suit myself. Rather, I must bend myself to suit great things. For to do anything else is to trade the exuberance of living for the poverty of existence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe you're about to reveal your evil scheme and bend me to your will. Just so you know, I don't think it will be very hard to bend me to your will.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Don't pressure the bent tree down otherwise it will break, if a tree from it's base wasn't bend, it will be sraight slowly slowly, and a tree which was originally bend will never be straight.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih