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Quotes About Leaning

The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.
~ James Joyce
A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.
~ Earl Wilson
And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both—such being the commonest process of a not ill-disposed mind.
~ Jane Austen
predilection
~ Jean M. Auel
If you do that, she can ride on my back," Tsunami suggested. She missed having the little SandWing come lean against her trustingly.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
So I am to sit here and feed you information," Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. "And you're to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward." I fix him with a look. "I can be charming. I charmed you, didn't I?" He rolls his eyes. "Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.
~ Holly Black
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.
~ Nick Harkaway
but she sits almost asleep, her head drooping to the left, out toward the sky, as if the sky were some stranger's shoulder to lean upon throughout a trip on a train.
~ Unknown
We can't risk moving him, he's an eyelash from being dead." Leaning into her, I gave out with the old ER saying, "They're not dead until they're warm and dead.
~ Craig Johnson
But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.
~ Rodney Atkins
Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.
~ Wesley Clark
Whereas," I chipped in, leaning forward and raising my own voice enough to be heard over the clop and creak of the horses, "if harm comes to them because of some man, the satisfaction of blaming him will be adequate compensation?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Composting Engineer"?" I said, leaning forward in my seat. "That's what it says," Lo said. "It's a polite way of saying you'll be shoveling shit.
~ John Scalzi
The spire above the empty belfry was bent; it leaned, like the leaning jackpines all around it, with the prevailing northwest wind.
~ Unknown
In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?
~ Mary Ruefle
Then you should be as willing. I know how poison fascinates you. Surely dying from it will fascinate you, too." Leaning closer, I hiss, "It is a pity you cannot take notes.
~ Unknown
got to sit in this big uncomfortable chair with my head leaning back in this groove. The hair washer must have
~ Paula Danziger
Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”
~ Judges 16:26