All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch… — Gina Carano Copy Share Image
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind… — Soong May-ling Copy Share Image
The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely… — Walter Farley Copy Share Image
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Frost is but slender weeks away, Tonight the sunset glow will stay, Swing to the north and burn up higher And Northern… — Robert P. T. Coffin Copy Share Image
A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Hans Sloane Copy Share Image
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew. — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
