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I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich. -- Danny DeVito
Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you. -- DJ Jazzy Jeff
Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear. -- Tracie Peterson
(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought. -- Cassandra Clare
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest? -- Robert Bridges
Standing is stupid, Crawling's a curse, Skipping is silly,Walking is worse.Hopping is hopeless,Jumping's a chore,Sitting is senseless, Leaning's a bore.Running's ridiculous,Jogging's insane-Guess I'll go upstairs andLie down again. -- Shel Silverstein
Leaning back against Cam's chest, I tipped my head back and I reached up, cupping his cheek. I drew his mouth to mine and kissed him softly. "Thank you." His lips curved up on one side. "For what?" "For waiting for me. -- J. Lynn
I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."' It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing. -- Cassandra Clare
Life is like walking a tightrope:A balance between turning inward Often enough to find your happy coreAnd focusing outward Often enough to care a little more. Leaning too much inward May make you aloof and narcissisticLeaning too much outwardMay make you bitter and pessimistic.Keeping balance fuels life with hope." -- Joan Marques
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. -- Rita Rudner
If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down. -- Robert Anthony
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. -- Mary Baker Eddy
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite. -- Tucker Max
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. -- Stephen Covey
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left. -- Paul Cezanne
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? -- James Madison
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
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. -- Winston Churchill
I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men. -- Joe Frazier
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
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. -- Orison Swett Marden
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies. -- Hugh MacDiarmid
Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens. -- Kevin James
I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean? -- Scott Baio
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. -- Henri Bergson
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! -- George Clooney
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper. -- Jo Brand
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them. -- Ellen G. White
Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards. -- Rupert Grint
My friend Jonathan had a great tree house. It was awesome. It was like a big fort up in this tall magnolia tree... That's where we would conduct our very important business, I'm sure, with all our bikes leaning up against a tree and no girls allowed, handling all sorts of important things you handle when you're seven or eight. -- Eric Ladin
When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love. -- Chris Isaak
I'm quite good at leaning against a bar. -- Daniel Craig
...one half leaning in, one half pulling away. -- Jodi Picoult
Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics. -- Amy Carter
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Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. -- Dwight L. Moody
Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder. -- Melina Marchetta
If you are not leaning, no one will let you down. -- Robert Anthony
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache -- N. C. Wyeth
At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. -- Henry Rollins
Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters. -- Rich Lowry
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. -- Anais Nin
I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again. -- Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning. -- Pearl Bailey
I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening. -- Mary Oliver
They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall. -- Russell M. Nelson
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction. -- Brenda Strong
The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car. -- Derek Landy
Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength. -- John Ciardi
Dad thanks for leaning in by helping me become a role model for young girls. -- Serena Williams
When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. -- Sun Tzu
A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door. -- Thomas Pynchon
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary. -- Wayne Dyer
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. -- Barry Lopez
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast. -- Sara Genn
Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. -- Shannon Hale
You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped. -- Edgar Cayce
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Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. -- Stephen Covey
You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles. -- George W. Bush
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling. -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. -- Tony Campolo
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer. -- Teresa of Avila
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm. -- Iain Banks
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction. -- Mary-Louise Parker
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. -- J. D. Salinger
Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa. -- Mara Liasson
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. -- Michel de Montaigne
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. -- Stephen Covey
But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what? -- Peter S. Beagle
Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building! -- Dave Ramsey
Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe. -- Leon F. "Lee" Ellis
But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?' -- Peter S. Beagle
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. -- Eric Allman
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality. -- Rachel Griffiths
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
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind. -- James I. Robertson, Jr.
I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. -- Padma Lakshmi
I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G. -- Snoop Dogg
I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel. -- Michelle Zink
Chubi, rhymes with booby, which you don't have, or doodie, which your face looks like," she said smugly, leaning back and making her chair squeak. -- Kim Harrison
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers. -- Charles Frazier
Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting. -- William H. Macy
Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes. -- Anthony Scaramucci
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties. -- Michael Medved
The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever. -- Nancy Garden
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise! he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face. - Rhett Butler -- Margaret Mitchell
Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck. -- J. K. Rowling
We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do all of these things," Daniel said, leaning into her so that their foreheads touched, "because you're my love, Lucinda. For me, you're all there is. -- Lauren Kate
You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans. -- Cate Tiernan
He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed you? Is there an other way you like it? -- Cassandra Clare
I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success. -- Missy Elliot
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler -- Margaret Mitchell
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us. -- Amy Tan
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. -- Sheryl Sandberg
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. -- Thomas Merton
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time -- Andre Breton
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
All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I? -- Leslie Mann
If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet. -- Kenneth Kaye
I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting. -- Tracy Morgan
Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes. -- Glen Duncan
Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry. -- John Dryden
There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something. -- M. Night Shyamalan
He sighed heavily. "Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don't want you around." He put a hand on the wall, leaning against it and tapping his foot impatiently. -- Kiersten White
I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it. -- Feist

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