Lean Quotes
585 quotes by 511 authors
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I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light,…
— Maurice Blanchot
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She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. “What if it means something?†She asks. “What if it does?†“Promise me it won’t mean…
— Simone Elkeles
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Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better." "Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean…
— Simone Elkeles
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The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way…
— Dr. Seuss
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It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's…
— Helen Fielding
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Tessa looked quickly to Will, but he only crossed the room as he always did to lean against the fireplace mantel. Cecily had never been…
— Cassandra Clare
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There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I…
— Shonda Rhimes
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Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip…
— Richard Pryor
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I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry…
— Bisco Hatori
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I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
— Shane Koyczan
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The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see…
— Pema Chodron
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Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me…
— Ally Carter
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I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank…
— Keri Hilson
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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the…
— Mark Twain
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No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw…
— Henry George
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For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried,…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
— Larry Niven
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I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing…
— Sanjay Dutt
Who Wrote These Lean Quotes
511 authors contributed a total of 585 Lean Quotes, led by these top contributors: