Bending Force

Famous quotes containing the words bending and/or force:

    We have bathed, where none have seen us,
    In the lake and in the fountain,
    Underneath the charmed statue
    Of the timid, bending Venus,
    Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

    Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)