Quotes of Slender - somelinesforyou

“ Time — that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow. ”

- Chuck Close

“ Travel, of course, narrows the mind. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ”

- Robinson Jeffers

“ How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing? ”

- Ziggy

“ Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. ”

- George Washington

“ The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. ”

- William Manchester

“ The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. ”

- Pablo Casals

“ To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ 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 pacific theories. ”

- Madame Chiang Kai Shek

“ The slightest breeze that ever blew; Some slender grass has wavered; The smallest life I ever knew Some other life has flavored. ”

- Angela Morgan

“ 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

“ Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ”

- Martin Tupper

“ Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Faith… acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. ”

- John Henry Cardinal Newman

“ All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. ”

- Ovid

“ 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 are easily snapped off. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Though people with disabilities have become more vocal in recent years, we still constitute a very small minority. Yet the Beautiful People - the slender, fair and perfect ones - form a minority that may be even smaller. ”

- Debra Kent

“ Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ”

- Craig Claiborne

“ The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly. ”

- St. John of the Cross

“ O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew — hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been. ”

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

“ 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 either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars… ”

- Gerard de Nerval
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