Thin Quotes
1077 quotes by 872 authors
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I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched…
— Sarra Manning
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Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the…
— Toby Hemenway
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I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims…
— Irshad Manji
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Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.
— Gail Tsukiyama
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The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see…
— Herbert Hoover
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I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen…
— William Faulkner
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So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my…
— Alan Thicke
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O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In…
— William James
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From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They…
— Steven Levenkron
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I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My…
— Carre Otis
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At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power…
— Murray Rothbard
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I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter,…
— Crescent Dragonwagon
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Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty…
— Russ Feingold
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We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep…
— Hari Kunzru
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Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
— Isabella Beeton
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally…
— Rachel Zoe
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On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden…
— Tom Robbins
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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do…
— Julia Child
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