Quotes About Steady

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Things are truly baggage, our impedimenta, which must be maintained with work that is menial, steady and recurring.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

His hand's about as steady as a live toad in aspic

Steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket.

I got a few speeding tickets when I was young, but I'm a little more like the turtle than the hare.

We talk about long-term patient investing, and that idea that slow and steady does win the race, that time can be your best friend when it comes to investing. That's why we have a turtle as a logo at Ariel.

What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

he is so steady, solid as a rock.

encouraging traders to make steady money at the expense of hidden risks of Black Swans, consequential losses.

The mantra of the "least worse" does not work—look at the steady deterioration in American politics. The "least worst" paves the way for the worst.

She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak in her, but it also made her someone of substance.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Make haste slowly.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; what once happened can happen always.

I thought of Mark's reckless eyes—The only things I believe in are out on that there dig—and then of revolutionaries waving ragged, gallant banners, of refugees swimming swift nighttime currents; of all those who hold life so light, or the stakes so dear, that they can walk steady and open-eyed to meet the thing that will take or transform their lives and whose high cold criteria are far beyond our understanding.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.

The oil industry—which in productivity terms was one of the great success stories of privatization—also began a slow but steady renationalization

The steady snip snip snip of the scissors seemed to hypnotize Ruby, that and the comforting familiarity of her mother's touch.

The love she felt for Rob now was a burning tenderness, a knowledge that he was the one who'd taught he it was POSSIBLE to love, who had melted the ice of her heart. it was strong and gentile and steady, full of admiration and the intimacy of shared likes and dislikes. it was golden and warm like a summer afternoon.