Slender Quotes

103 Slender quotes by 90 unique authors

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
The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic. — Gaspard Ulliel
I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some… — Gina Carano
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he… — Jack Goldstein
My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing... — Huang E
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. — John Henry Newman
Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to… — Jean Ingelow
Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long… — George Arnold
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged… — William E. Gladstone
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see… — William Hazlitt
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that… — Carl Jung

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