I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don’t break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.
Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules – and hijack democratic institutions – to their favour.
I bend and do not break.
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what’s happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It’s just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you’re using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
U.S. infrastructure projects ought to support workers and create jobs in South Bend and Gary, not in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life. I tell kids that it’s a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it’s up to them to decide which way to bend.
I produce the records. I don’t hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will – for commercial purposes.
My dad used to call me ‘the human pretzel’ because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
Since the ’86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty ‘bends’ the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a ‘comprehensive’ deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space – that’s really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get shot down for logic reasons.
When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape… the bones bend.
Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That’s her style. And I learned that from her.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
My weight blew up to 400 lbs and I couldn’t bend down to tie my own shoelaces.
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it’s very important to know that politics.
I’m not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I’m like, ‘Oh… that’s what I have.’
You have to be equal at both – great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It’s hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
The forward bend really relaxes the nervous system and brings blood flow back to the brain.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
