Steps Quotes - Page 39

• If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Artist, Humanity

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• I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

  Robert E. Howard

  Devil, Going Out, Way

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.365, Del Rey

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• If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce. 'If she fell on the steps, they would never be able to put her together again', he replied.

  Tamora Pierce

  Together Again, Able, Break

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3”, p.293, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.

  Italo Calvino

  Past, Hands, Cities

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Believe, Hero, Alternatives

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “A Princess of Mars (Science Fiction Classic): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Barsoom Series, Llana of Gathol, Pirates of Venus, The Land That Time Forgot & Pellucidar”, p.11, e-artnow

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• Two steps behind her, I say her name. "Skye.

  Jay Asher

  Names, Two, Skye

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.288, Penguin

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• In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

  Arthur Golden

  Children, Taken, Doors

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• If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Believe, Firsts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.24, SCM Press

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• I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Years

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• But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Japan, Might

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• It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Differences, Perspective, Opponents

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.311, Random House

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• Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.617, GENERAL PRESS

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• So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Thug, Two, Giving

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• The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sublime, Ridiculous

  Theodor W. Adorno (2013). “Aesthetic Theory”, p.269, A&C Black

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• Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Two, Numbers, Trying

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• And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sea, Voice, Beads

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.

  Jay-Z

  Stress, School, Jumping

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.206, Random House Group

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• In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life may be death and death life again reaps. He had to leap, and by his death, the others would live. That was it. That was what Sandwich had been trying to say all along, and by now he believed in Sandwich. He put on a final burst of speed, just like the coach taught him in track. He gave everything he had. In the last few steps before the canyon he felt a sharp pain in the back of his leg, and then the ground gave way under his feet. Gregor the Overlander leaped.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Feet, Track

  Suzanne Collins (2003). “Gregor the Overlander”

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• we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

  Charles Darwin

  Admitting, Great Change

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Jesus, Fall

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• They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

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• When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Crush, Hands, Body

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you have to think very carefully about whether you want to cross it, because once you do it’s very hard to get back to the world you left behind. And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. But sometimes you have a friend to rescue. And so you take a deep breath and then step over the line and into the darkness ahead.

  Anne Ursu

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Firsts, Fortunate

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• Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Doors, Magic

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