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Quotes About Leaned

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
~ Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
YOKO LEANED ON me as she built a new life. My first piece of advice was to get rid of the off-duty cops and security inside her apartment.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy's entire diet for the day.
~ Rick Riordan
Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything - your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned, stood, or sat, this way or that: when you left, the area around here rose a tilted tide, and everything that offers desolation drained away.
~ A.R. Ammons
Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.
~ Anna D. Shapiro
He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on the door, was capable of keeping out anyone who did not want to smash his way in with an ax.
~ John Bellairs
He leaned closer, for all he willed himself not to, feeling her power, the serpent's hypnotic romance. Her perfume should have dizzied him, but suddenly all he could smell was the clean animal heat of the unicorn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
occurred. But there was no denying it now, the evidence was all over him. The pleasantly warm flush to his normally sallow cheeks; the relaxed, almost rubbery way he leaned against the window—a stark contrast to his usual calcified, if slightly hunched posture; and most important
~ Ben Mezrich
He came over to her with the lounging grace of a panther, and leaned against the mantelpiece.
~ Stella Gibbons
The chief didn't respond. He leaned back in his chair and stared at a toy police helicopter hanging on a string from the ceiling. He liked to say it was the tiny department's air squadron.
~ Michael Connelly
Ask! the cat said. Ask, Kate! Saiman prompted. Ask! one of the volhvs called out. I took a deep breath. The cat leaned forward in anticipation. Would you like some milk?
~ Ilona Andrews
He leaned in close. He saw his father's dirty hands. He spoke the last familiar words in a whisper. Its' fixed.
~ Mitch Albom
She leaned toward dark hair and was drawn to blue eyes.
~ Carolyn Brown
Let me help you with that?" she offered, and slowly leaned in close. PROF. ARTHUR P. MACANDLESS, ST. BRIDE'S CATHOLIC CARE HOME, it read. CONTACT PHONE
~ Charles Stross
I slid over to the edge of the bed and leaned back, letting my hair fall onto him. "Ack!" he cried. "Don't scare me like that!
~ Catherine Clark
Wotan leaned forward and light from the dim lamp fell on his face. Travers saw his bare eye socket, the skin stretched over the hole.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
The time to live, my love, was being so right now that I leaned my mouth on living matter.
~ Clarice Lispector
No," Hood said. He leaned over me to the desk and the odor of unwashed detective overlaid with cheap cologne almost made me gag. Hood scooped up the photos and straightened as he stuffed them back into the envelope. With Hood a few feet away from me once more, I managed to breathe again, and since my curiosity was coming to a boil, I used the breath for something practical. "They're all very nice pictures," I said. "But so what?
~ Jeff Lindsay
She leaned back against the wall of the elevator car, eyes still closed. "It's a kind of—what do they call it? Noblesse oblige." She opened one eye and pointed it at me. "Which sounds pretty pompous, I know.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The cabin leaned like a drunken cowboy.
~ Lori Wilde
The soldiers leaned into the windows and said that they were requisitioning the car for the Revolution.
~ Unknown
Dianne was suddenly concerned. Two boys see the same event. One goes into shock. It's reasonable to believe the other would be affected. She hadn't thought of this. She leaned down next to him. "Mark, are you all right?" He knew he had her. "I think so," he said with a frown, as if a migraine were upon him.
~ John Grisham
He leaned his flail against the steps. 'That's to drive the mice out,' he said. 'I'll bet they're fat. I'll bet they don't know what's going to happen to them today.' 'No, nor you either,' Billy remarked philosophically, 'nor me, nor anyone.
~ John Steinbeck