#bent

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. ↗

— Andre Gide

#follow #good #leads #long #own

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#authority #bent #get #i #i think

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#champion #else #exhaustion #looking #nobody

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#bent #country #i #leader #live

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#flexible #metal #more #than #weight

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#bent #civilization #destroying #fighting #group

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bent #centuries #curb #developed #did

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#aggressively #believe #communities #congress #country

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding