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«A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.»
Author: Allan Cunningham (Author, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: bends, fills, flowing, follows, gallant, rustle, rustles, rustling, sail, sea a, sheet, The Mast, The White, wet, white, White Sea
«I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'»
Author: Geena Davis (Actress, Model, Producer, Writer) | Keywords: back door, bends, elbow, elevator, Elevators, scream, stand in, The Doors
«Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.»
Author: I Ching | Keywords: accordingly, bends, central, denied, inferior, outward, retains, sparingly
«If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.»
Author: John Enoch Powell | Keywords: bends, ends, journey, river, River The, sails, ship, sight, The River
«Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'»
Author: The Talmud | Keywords: Angel, bends, blade, grass, whispers
«Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.»
Author: Theodore Parker | Keywords: arc, arcs, bends, calculate, continual, curve, curved, curving, divine right, mismanage, mismanaged, Moral right, pretend, progressive, Progressives, reaches, The Progressive, triumph
«I'm so used to pressure I'm afraid if it stopped I'd get the bends.»
Author: Walter Headley | Keywords: bends, The Bends
«Saints will aid if men will call: / For the blue sky bends over all!»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Critic, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: bends, blue sky, call for
«Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: alteration, alterations, bends, impediments, remove, remover
«I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing (Author, Clergyman) | Keywords: accidental, bends, deliberately, espouse, espoused, espousing, passively, swept
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