Slender Quotes
103 quotes by 95 authors
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
— Mark Twain
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
— William James
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Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a…
— Julia Cameron
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
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The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
— Anne Boleyn
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The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes…
— Hans Sloane
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them…
— Mark Twain
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I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
— Ovid
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I still battle with my deeply boring diet of, essentially, yogurt and breakfast cereal and granola bars. I hate dieting. I hate having to do…
— Julianne Moore
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive…
— Ed O'Neill
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If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a…
— William Mapother
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Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
— Russell Brand
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These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot…
— E. O. Wilson
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Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was…
— Sybil Adelman
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of…
— Soong May-ling
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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
— Charles Spurgeon
Who Wrote These Slender Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 103 Slender Quotes, led by these top contributors: