Taylor Wilson

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

American Scientist

Jeff Bridges

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

American Actor

Frank Gaffney

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

American Writer

Lee Ryan

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

British Musician

Khalil Gibran

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Lebanese Poet

Origen

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

Theologian

Joanne Kelly

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Canadian Actress

Angela Merkel

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

German Statesman

Edward Norton

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

Jess Phillips

I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.

British Politician

Refers to the actual form of objects when they're not straight.

Physical Shape

Used metaphorically to express someone being upset or stressed.

Emotional State

Emphasizes a strong determination or single-mindedness towards an action.

Strong Will

Can suggest an obsession or preoccupation with something.

Fixation

Refers to a person's natural ability or strong inclination towards something.

Inherent Skill

May indicate a hobby or passion, not necessarily a professional skill.

Special Interest

When used as a verb, it describes the action of changing the shape of something.

Action Oriented

Can be used to describe a person adjusting or yielding in behavior or decisions.

Flexibility

 makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the natural world sideways, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're simple and obvious or baffling and puzzling, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent to the control of something else.

Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...

 they threw around the bigger tree and bent them to get toward each other and then climbed over into the bigger tree then they climbed up and they did that again and they've got about you know in your hundred feet up where we were and helped me build this this beautiful blind where I was able to spend several

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed. So now we had a hangar space to work in, and prototypes to demo with. So in one year, we've negotiated manufacturing agreements, been awarded one patent, filed our second patent, talked to multiple people, demoed this to FEMA

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 normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces

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 It depends on how dexterous you feel. If you can bend each finger just halfway, that gives us three different states - down, half bent, and raised. Now, we can count using a base-three positional system,

How high can you count...

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 Maybe. Maybe it will. But that has always been an aspiration. It is not a guarantee. The arc doesn't bend itself. It's not bent inevitably by some mysterious force. The real truth,

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