Quotes of: First-step Keyword

Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Jane Eyre

The uncertainty, the fear of the unknown was driving him, almost to the point of desperation. He felt as if he was going down a dark stairway, missing a step, hurtling into the unknown and having no idea where he would land.

Racing With The Rain

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

The Rover

You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

Shaping the dream

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I just came this morning and haven't been debriefed yet about the status of our latest prisoners. As a matter of fact, I'd barely stepped inside,

More than Meets the Ink

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

Murder

I once saw a cockroach try to step on a politician, because it thought it was vile and disgusting.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

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.

The Night Circus

And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, “Bathroom door beside you,” and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.

Nightfall

True forgiveness for me has been and is a progression of faltering baby steps through a storm of flying debris.

Letting Go into Perfect Love: Discovering the Extraordinary After Abuse

It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

London Calling

The world beyond the water was a blue of green and stone and blue. A moment later Yoshi pushed through, the water pouring down in sheets so smooth it looked like glass, and stepped into the calm [p. 296]

The Lake of Dreams

Shoes are stupid. Why do people wear them?" -Bliss He laughed, "So they don't step on a nail and get tetanus, that's why." -Cade "Wear. Where. Wear. W's are wwweeird."-Bliss

Losing It

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

The Lord of the Rings

Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Of all the things I own, I’m most sentimental about my shoes, because they’ve traveled with me every step of my journey.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

She blinked once, then twice, and yet again, sure what she viewed was just another part of this fantasy world that she had stepped into when her feet touched the green grass of Ireland.

Secret Santa