How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender. — William James Copy Share Image
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. — John Henry Newman 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
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“He was not all good, would never be; yet there were slender threads of okay.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright,… — Jean Ingelow 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
Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray… — Maria V. Snyder 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
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just… — Flora Thompson 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
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
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“We still groped for each other on the backstairs or in parked cars as the road around us grew glossy with ice… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
