Slender Quotes

103 quotes by 90 authors

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. — Charles Brockden Brown
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. — Samuel Johnson
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. — Edmund Waller
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything,… — John of the Cross
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness… — Michael Pollan
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of… — Sri Aurobindo
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth… — Edgar Fawcett
In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and… — Jeffrey Eugenides
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. — Unknown Author
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish… — Thomas Hood
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us. — Martin Luther
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man… — Maria Jeritza
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods. — Jules Laforgue
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won,… — Ida Tarbell
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved… — Anne Rice
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many… — Heinrich Heine
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating… — Gerard De Nerval
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. — Pablo Casals

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