Bending Quotes

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

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.

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Aang was an airbending prodigy, but didn't even discover he could bend the other three elements on his own; whereas Korra was bending three of the elements at age four.

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

Topologists are not concerned with angles and lengths, which are clearly altered by stretching the rubber sheet, but they do care about more fundamental properties.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

I have to bend my knees now when I pick my son. No more bending from the waist.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

You have a solid State behind you, a united nation, a great army. For my part, I am too poor to afford bending.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard.

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

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?

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.