There has also been a change--a slippage--in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.
I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.
He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die. ' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
If you wake up And the day feels broken Just lean into the crack
I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get really round and soft.
The hearts that never lean must fall.
I know I'm the guy others will lean on.
I felt the electricity of his body behind me as he reached around me and took the card from my hand. He didn't move away, and I battled the urge to lean back into him, seeking the comfort of his strength. Would he wrap his arms around me? Make me feel safe, if only for a moment, and if only a delusion?
What I always look for is someone that really knew how to lean up against a bar, get a drink, sit on a barstool. When people are in bars they're relaxed. No real right angles - it's slow moves, it's slow conversations. You can tell a loud joke, but everyone's very relaxed. I never would pick somebody nervous or twitchy. If I found guys with beards, I'd ask them, don't trim the edges, don't go in and manicure yourself up. I always look for people that look like they're comfortable in their own skin, that wouldn't feel like it was the first time they were ever in a bar.
Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better. " "Okay, Miranda. I've got it. " I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. "At least I'm not dead. " How's that for positivity? I have to admit it does make me feel better.
When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.