It's better to bend than to break
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SCOTTISH PROVERB Better bend than break
SCOTTISH PROVERB Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break
JANE WELLS Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better ...
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?
LEWIS CARROLL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
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...
ANDREW TO 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...
SAMANTHA POWER 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 John did something that he hasn't done since last year. He would bend but not break. He was good in ...
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 Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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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