Slender Wonder Quotes

#1. All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic or fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or all too shakable convention of faith. And they have been able to sustain that slim hope in the face of darkness, then so must I.

Dan Simmons

#2. If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from they slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Attributed to the Gulistan of Moslih Eddin Saadi

Hazel Felleman

#3. The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.

Liu Cixin

#4. Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

Stella Gibbons

#5. All she could think of was that
she loved him--everything about
him, from the proud lift of his
gold head to his slender dark
boots, loved his laughter even when
it mystified her, loved his
bewildering silences.

Margaret Mitchell

#6. She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot.

Miranda Liasson

#7. This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.

Alexander Chee

#8. I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Ezra Pound

#9. In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Rifle at Rylie. He stared at her down the barrel, meeting her reflective golden gaze. She was a beautiful wolf, much more slender than Jericho, and more

S.M. Reine

#13. 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

#14. I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline bangs through my system. I shove Abel behind me and whip my knife from where I'd hidden it in my boot. Who the hell are you?

Georgia Clark

#15. The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

William Hazlitt

#16. Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.

Jean Ingelow

#17. He rose, took a slender silver water can with a long slim neck and staggered out. After a while he came back and put the can on the floor. We all rose to congratulate him, for his body had cleared itself of superfluous matter.

Kurban Said

#18. All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Ovid

#19. Her slender shoulders slumped making Marcus want to go to her and vow he'd never hurt her the way he could as a Drakkon.

Paula Quinn

#20. In the year 399 B.C.[E.] he was accused of "introducing new gods and corrupting the youth," as well as not believing in the accepted gods. With a slender majority, a jury of five hundred found him guilty.

Jostein Gaarder

#21. Fleetfoot turned to look up at Celaena, her golden eyes full of question. Celaena reached down to stroke the warm head, the long ears, the slender muzzle. But the question remained. Celaena said, "She's never coming back." The dog kept waiting.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires ...

John Geddes

#23. That's the gap," I said . Then I held out my hand and reached across.

Ellie reached back, wrapping her slender fingers around mine. "So are you disappointed that I'm not the perfect girl you thought I was?"

"No. I like you much better now - bed-head and all.

Todd Mitchell

#24. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

Richard Preston

#25. How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

Charles Brockden Brown

#26. Ah, hissed Neeve, plump but strangely elegant as she sat beside Blue on the wall. Blue was struck again, as she had been struck the first time she'd met Neeve, by her oddly lovely hands. Chubby wrists led to soft, child-like palms and slender fingers with oval nails.

Maggie Stiefvater

#27. On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#28. Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming.

Tom Bissell

#29. The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

Gaspard Ulliel

#30. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

Jonathan Swift