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Quotes About Steps

for everybody must now 'move in a circle', - to the prevalence of which rotatory motion, is perhaps to be attributed the giddiness and false steps of many.
~ Jane Austen
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.
~ Charles Francis Richter
We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.
~ Chris Grayling
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
~ Charlotte Smith
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
~ D. H. Lawrence
She's Magnificent, Darius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them, Stark grumbled. Mental and mean pop into my head, I said. Manure pops into mine, Stark said. Manure? I think she's full of shit, but it's to many words and doesn't start with an m , so that's as close as I could get, he said.
~ P.C. Cast
Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.
~ Pablo Neruda
Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.
~ Pablo Neruda
De pena en pena cruza sus islas el amor y establece raíces que luego riega el llanto, y nadie puede, nadie puede evadir los pasos del corazón que corre callado y carnicero.
~ Pablo Neruda
Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or the needs of our world. Any other offer fails to do justice to the drama of human redemption, deprives the hearer of life's greatest opportunity, and abandons this present life to the evil powers of the age.
~ Dallas Willard
We are not machines that can be repaired through a series of steps—we are relational beings who are transformed by the mystery of relationship.
~ Dan Allender
Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.
~ Dan Millman
and she turned for the stairs as the sound of rain came, finally, scattered across the roof, a fall that now gave substance to the stilled beams of headlamps in the drive where those of flashlights rose and fell to the cadenced steps come back and round the range of yew and up the terrace and through the door to fall on broken glass and flee across the inkstained carpet, darting, climbing, caught fixed in niches, they scaled the walls and leaped the beams to skirt the hayloft.
~ William Gaddis
It had the side-to-side proportions of a small sitting room, but its floor was way below. Absurdly deep. Steps angled down. It was a shaft of roomness, shelved with books. Ladders dangled from the stacks. As the church's holdings grew, Billy thought, horizontal constraints required generations of kraken worshippers to dig for their library.
~ China Mieville
most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes
~ Chip Heath
life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.
~ Christian de Duve
The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.
~ Christine Wiltz
Then the whole process of correction becomes nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. These steps may be summarized in this way: Know first that this is fear. Fear arises from lack of love. The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love. Perfect love is the Atonement.
~ Helen Schucman
Rework the basics. Your initial presentation will result in a sequence or series of steps: To really know your stuff, change the order. Start with step 5 and work backward. Skip a couple of steps. Rehearsing the material in a different order helps to reinforce your knowledge of the material.
~ Hendrie Weisinger
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
~ Hillary Clinton
The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
~ Ann Lewin-Benham
I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.
~ Unknown
Securing the Republican nomination is an intricate series of steps that requires a comprehensive strategy.
~ Paul Manafort
I think, in anyone's career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want.
~ Erin Foster