Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for t...he most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. T...heir civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents con...tinuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees,... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This American government,--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity..., but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we all must allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished. For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most left alone by it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee shou...ld bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The past absconds With our fortunes just as we were rounding a major... Bend in the swollen river; not to see ahead Becomes the only predicament when what Might be sunken there is mentioned only In crabbed allusions but will be back tomorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »