Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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.
Encouraging individual firms to develop forward-leaning policies that address sexual harassment is necessary, but alone such prescriptions are insufficient.
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
(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.
I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
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?
Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.
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.
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.
Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.
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.
Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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.
I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.
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.
I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.
Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.
I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.
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.
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really awesome. That is more the work that I'm leaning towards doing.
The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a true spirit of innovation.
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.
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.
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?
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.
"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
If you want to know what the DJ is playing, just ask. You don't have the right to stick your head in front of my screen as if you're an expert leaning over the shoulder of the apprentice.
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together...
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.
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?
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.
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
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
Something Dylan and I really don't care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn't make sense.
But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'
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.
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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
In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?
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.
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.
When I got a call about 'Celebrity X factor' I thought wow, what an opportunity. It felt like everything had been leaning towards that point.
Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.
Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.
My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.
Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!
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!
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
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.
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