It's better to bend than to break


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Better bend than break.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Better bend than break
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break
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H.G. WELLS
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
We could bend them, but we couldn't break them.
JOHN MOON
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
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ANDREW TO
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ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
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Better to bow than break
PROVERB
I bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
I bend and do not break
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
MARY OLIVER
It is better to build than to break.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS...
Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
SACHA GUITRY
You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
RACHELE BROOKE SMITH
For her I bend, for you I break.
COLLEEN HOOVER
We did exactly what we wanted to do defensively – bend but don't break.
LIN STADLER
“Wisdom is the subtlety of knowing which rules to bend and which rules to break”
SARA LOKEY
It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
ETHAN ZOHN
I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? H...
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If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
ROBERT GRAVES
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
MARGARET KENNEDY
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak.
RVM
Hearts are tough. Most times they don't break. Most times they only bend.
STEPHEN KING
Adversity - If need be, let it bend, but never let it break you.
JACEY R. FOLEY
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gen...
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her.
"You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to he...
OLIVIA CUNNING
Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend
STEPHEN KING
I don't break the rules, I bend them. A delicate art you cannot learn.
NORAIN
It was bend but don't break tonight. We made the plays when we had to and that's why we won.
CLARK HAGGANS
They backed me up. One of those games that was all bend and no break.
TIM HUDSON
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
SERJ TANKIAN
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
THOMAS FULLER
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MIKE SCIOSCIA
Our game plan was to bend and not break. After (Paul VI's first touchdown), we shut them down in the...
TONY NICOLINO
It was 80 today. We've already seen 90 this year. But even 50 at Big Bend is better than 20 in Denve...
MARK SPIER
Its better to "stay single" than being "single again
SHARFARAZ AHMED
Its better to be Pissed Off than Pissed On!
MARIE KATRA
Its better to be a loser than a quittter.......
PRABHA
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks,...
UNKNOWN
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI
Life is not just about betterment of one’s own life. It is important to make yourself stronger so ...
ZENG HAN JUN
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Build your life not on the strongest ,but most flexible frame for it will bend but never break.
ANDONI GARCIA
Its better not to be born than falling in love.
NUTAN BAJRACHARYA
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at ...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
CAMPBELL BROWN
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Its Better to Destroy the BOX than to Think outside the BOX.
UDAYVEER SINGH
either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you...
OGDEN NASH
If your tear is somebodies smile ,than its better to cry
NIKHIL MUDKA
its better to know some question than all answers -James Thurber
R.J. PALACIO
In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET
If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.
RYAN LOCHTE
Its better to be a good mason, than to be a bad architect.
IMRAN NAZIR
Its better to be fun and funny, than to be angry and grumpy.
PHILIP T. M.
I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.
ASHTON EATON
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
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GEORGE MACDONALD
Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.
BISTA NIROOJ
Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13)
BIBLE
It sounds like they can break their own rules when they're investigating crimes. Too bad our clients...
JOHN WESLEY (BUSINESS EXECUTIVE)
Our philosophy on defense is bend but don't break and we bent a lot tonight. Fortunately we only bro...
JEAN GORDON
If the heart could bend, then it has lost the ability to defend its own stand to only befriend other...
ANUJ SOMANY
If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON
There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS
Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM
I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
EARL WILSON
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Its better to be told you are wrong,than live thinking you are wrong
KIMBERLY SHILENJE
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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