A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it
George Washington
Once Ladd had acquired an unsmiling hardness, he was transformed from an extra to a phenomenon. Ladd`s calm slender ferocity make it clear that he was the first American actor to show the killer as a cold angel. - David Thomson ("A Biographical Dictionary...
Alan Ladd
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
Ashley Reynolds
The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fa...
Ann Kjera
It`s very atmospheric. It`s not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
Andy Ringstaff
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.
Ed O`Neill