Steady Quotes - Page 25

• In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Gold, Notes

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Spirit of Christmas”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

  Eudora Welty

  Learning, Childhood, Pulse

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• One cannot rest except after steady practice.

  George Ade

  Practice

  George Ade (1985). “The Best of George Ade”

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• Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

  John Hay

  Friendship, Sunshine, Men

  John Hay (1913). “Poems”

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• It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

  Alexis Bledel

  Years, Sides, Tvs

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• And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

  Justin Cronin

  Fiction, Grew Up, Apocalyptic

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• Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.

  Dianna Agron

  Jobs, Two, Careers

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.

  Julie Chen

  Jobs, Winning, Race

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• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Breathing, Growth

  "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

  Tim DeKay

  Jobs, Character, Different

  "My Favorite Weekend: Tim DeKay of 'White Collar'". Interview with Mark Sachs, articles.latimes.com. July 16, 2010.

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• You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Father, Thinking, Two

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• You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

  Monica Ali

  Running, Assuming, Life Is

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• No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Clouds, Vagueness

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.50, Modern Library

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• The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Progress, Expansion

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

  Joni Mitchell

  Rip, Poetry, Ready

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• Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

  Hu Jintao

  Office, Effort, Growth

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Careers, Progress, Remarkable

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• Pause and remember - Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up.

  Jennifer Young

  Giving Up, Want, Too Much

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• I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

  Ray Davies

  Jobs, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Song: Top of the Pops

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• Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

  Mojo Nixon

  Dad, Pigs, Social Taboos

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• I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

  Kelly Reilly

  Thinking, Drawing, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Fun, Journey, Careers

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• Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Stronger, Mergers, Share

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• I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

  Joe Lando

  Years, Paychecks

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• One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Distance, Communication

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.91, Cosimo, Inc.

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