“ 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- Copy
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“ Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
- 140
“ 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- Copy
- 265
“ The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. ”
- William Manchester- Copy
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“ The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. ”
- Pablo Casals- Copy
- 963
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The slightest breeze that ever blew; Some slender grass has wavered; The smallest life I ever knew Some other life has flavored. ”
- Angela Morgan- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ”
- Martin Tupper- Copy
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“ Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Faith… acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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