Stepping Away Quotes

• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Writing, Able

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• You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?

  Lauren Kate

  Said, Fallen, Prepared

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.245, Delacorte Press

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• Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.

  Ernest Cline

  Horse, Kings, Bird

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• Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

  Pico Iyer

  Turning Your Back, And Love, World

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Actors, Television, Mediums

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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