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Quotes About Leaning

Walking is broken falls, the body leaning, the legs advancing to catch it.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Think crucial hanging. Think crayon orange. There is one low, leaning heart-shaped globe left and dearest, can you tell, I am trying to love you less.
~ Ada Limón
Moundshroud, leaning over, gave a snort: "Why those are Sins, boys! And nondescripts. There crawls the Worm of Conscience!
~ Ray Bradbury
The sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill their two ridiculous shadows of unequal length, that trailed behind them slowly over the tall grass without bending a single blade.
~ Joseph Conrad
Trust in Him Faith in Jesus is "the leaning of your entire personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness" (Col. 1:4). Are you leaning on Him?
~ Joyce Meyer
The amplification of the word faith in Colossians 1:4 is "the leaning of your entire human personality on [God] in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness" (AMPC). I love this
~ Joyce Meyer
There is no question that Hannity is a conservative. But I can tell you from personal experience after having worked with O'Reilly for years now, you never know where he is going to come out on an issue. He definitely leans right when it comes to certain social, traditional value issues, but he's all over the board on certain other issues.
~ Megyn Kelly
"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."
~ Iain Banks
15. Therefore to believe in God, is in believing to cleave to God, to lean on God, to rest in God as in our all-sufficient life and salvation. Deut. 30, 20. by cleaving to him, for he is thy life.
~ William Ames
It does seem to help to lean your torso toward the curve. You don't have to shift your butt to the inside of the saddle, just lean your torso forward and toward the curve. Some riders use the mirror as a reference point, leaning toward the inside and lining up the mirror with their cornering line. That happens to work nicely with countersteering, as you'll tend to pull the grips toward the curve as you lean your torso.
~ David L. Hough
I set the garbage bag down and leaned against the station wagon, staring east, directly into the rising sun. I'm not supposed to do that because my glasses are so thick. My brother, Erik, once told me that if I ever look directly into the sun with these glasses, my eyeballs will burst into flame, like dry leaves under a magnifying glass.
~ Edward Bloor
When I think of my career and why I leaned in, it comes down to basic survival.
~ Mellody Hobson
Bonner leans his forehead against hers. Zig when they think you'll zag. Creation's Rule Number Two. What's Number One? Els asks, willing to be this bent soul's straight man. Zag when they think you'll zig.
~ Richard Powers
To think of how many times I have carted a lingering drunk out of my house in a wheelbarrow and leaned him up against a tree along the road.
~ Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Funny, she says leaning against an unexpected warm place in the stone on the threshold of the church and liking the feel of it on her arm. Like, how we overload summer most out of all the seasons, I mean with our expectations of it.
~ Ali Smith
To be a cocksucker is to be oriented towards a specific gender.
~ Rictor Norton
You and Galileo," I said. "Didn't he throw his balls off the leaning tower?" Quirk Said.
~ Robert B. Parker
It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.
~ Ken Ham, The Lie: Evolution
The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.
~ Derek Landy
I have a question to ask you." Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. "And what is that, husband?" Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. "Do I love you?
~ Jennifer Ashley
Sisters, drop everything. Walk away from the lake, leaning on each other's shoulders when you need the support. Feel the contradictions of another truth ready to be born: shame turned inside out is rage.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
She leaned back in the bed and smiled, feeling excited at the prospect; feeling hope.
~ Alan Brennert
For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered towards Hazlitt's Hotel. She was tall enough to hold easily. He had never fancied very small women. Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he known how much Strike had liked it.
~ Robert Galbraith
Overhead, spiece of the night came loose, dropping from the top of a high boulder which leaned from the right.
~ Roger Zelazny