Zitat des Tages über Schlank / Slender:
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.