Leans Quotes
99 quotes by 85 authors
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Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow.…
— Anthony of Padua
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The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so…
— Howard Zinn
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A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.
— Danny DeVito
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and…
— James Russell Lowell
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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
— Max Beckmann
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When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.
— Dwight L. Moody
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I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know…
— Sullivan Ballou
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Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans…
— Thomas Brooks
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The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
— Conrad Aiken
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Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and…
— Sherman Alexie
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Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the…
— Laurie Lee
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Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait.…
— Jack Handey
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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on…
— Edwin Markham
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He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
— Khalil Gibran
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Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
— Karen Lord
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So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality…
— Mao Zedong
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The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto its…
— Robert Fripp
Who Wrote These Leans Quotes
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