Quotes of Leaning - somelinesforyou

“ There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide. ”

- Unknown

“ If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ”

- Unknown

“ It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ”

- Unknown

“ As the twig is bent the tree inclines. ”

- Virgil

“ As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. ”

- George Ade

“ Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. ”

- Tim Berners Lee

“ When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide. ”

- Unknown

“ I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. ”

- Rowan Atkinson

“ And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. ”

- Bible

“ And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising. ”

- Bible

“ A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him. ”

- John Fisher

“ A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. ”

- Robert Plant

“ If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. ”

- Mary Baker Eddy

“ Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him. ”

- James Thurber

“ A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ”

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“ A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ”

- Dorothy C. Fisher

“ A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary. ”

- Dorothy Fisher

“ Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself. ”

- Thomas Aquinas

“ By the time was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place… ”

- Ken Iverson

“ I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write-with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ When the weather is mild, they stand leaning with both their arms upon the corn-field fence, and gravely consider whether they had best go and take a Small Heat at the Hough: but generally find reasons to put it off till another time. ”

- William Byrd

“ Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. ”

- Orison S. Marden
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