I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
It is impossible to bend the arm of God.
Whatever is to be a hook, bends early.
Better bend than break.
Easier to bend the body than the will.
The nobler the tree, the more bends the twig.
A back does not break from bending.
To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.
It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.
The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.
Young bamboo trees are easy to bend.
Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
The corn will bend but it still ends up in the mill.
Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you
Small things start us in new ways of thinking
Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.
[an old convict and H.I. lying on their prison bunks, passing the time] Ear-Bending Cellmate: ...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand. H.I.: You ate ...
The tall one wouldn't bend; the short one wouldn't stretch and the kiss was lost.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
You always fall down in the direction of where you bend over.
