Leaning Quotes

216 Leaning quotes by 175 unique authors

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. — Padma Lakshmi
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest… — James Madison
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or… — Orison Swett Marden
I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. — Henry Rollins
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. — Rita Rudner
In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this… — Sharon Salzberg
Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same… — Ellen G. White
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways… — Douglas Rushkoff
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring… — E E Cummings
The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can… — Lynda Barry
A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and… — Gertrude Stein
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden… — Orhan Pamuk
My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door. — Thomas Pynchon
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always… — Andre Breton
Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It… — George MacDonald
From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre… — Cormac McCarthy
I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his… — Jim Cymbala
The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly… — Connie Willis
They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say… — Lauren Willig
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock.… — Charlotte Bronte
Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear. — Tracie Peterson
She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree… — Robin McKinley
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like… — Sarah Dessen
Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun… — Leonard Cohen

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