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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Time, Car, Possible

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

Power, Alone, Strong

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

Best, Mind, End

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley

Mistakes, Past, Learn

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund Burke

Another, Laws, Houses

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
Henry Rollins

Mind, Keep, Body

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace

Success, Neighbor, Grows

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini

Strong, Friends, Become

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Black Elk

Great, Once, Earth

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia

Music, Poetry, Forward

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert

Fat, Compromise, Lawsuit

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving

Men, Society, Together

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
William Ames

Faith, God, May

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Soul, Body, Fat

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
Mario Batali

Kids, Listen, Taught

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.
Chris Rock

Democratic, Admit

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
Julie Andrews

Work, Money, Woman

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne

Strength, Mind, Solitude

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber

Far, Face, Might

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton

Life, Heart, Human

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.
Mike Ditka

Heart, Simple, Nothing

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura

Made, Fair, Side

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
Katherine Heigl

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Natalie Portman

Strong, Stories, Exist

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.
Serena Williams

Trying, Wanted, Lose

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney

Diet, Small, Living

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
Eddie Izzard

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.
Cat Cora

Love, Great, Diet

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.
Channing Tatum

Training, Move, Soft

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