Definition of Bending

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Definition of Bending
	Bending of Bend The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Related Definitions: Bend, Clothes, Horizontal, Marking, Of, Or, The, With

Bending Quotations

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Douglas Horton

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
James Stockdale

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
Marie Windsor

Bending Translations

bending in French is courbant, cambrant
bending in German is beugend, biegend
bending in Latin is inflexus
bending in Spanish is torcimiento

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