Quotes of: Stairs Keyword

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

City of Stairs

One has no room for vengeance,' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.

City of Stairs

The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.

City of Stairs

Hand in hand they whispered for a while. The girl nodded and the bear laughed. Together, they made their way down the corridor and to the foot of the stairs.

Dead Ted

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.

A Gate at the Stairs

If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.

It Occurred to Me

Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.

Shaping the dream

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

Made You Up

Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.

OFW: This is My Life and Story

Hand in hand, we climb the processional stair, rising in the celebratory uproar of a capricious court. As we enter the palace, we are blinded by the ascent from sunshine into darkness.

Tarnish

She said, “I’m having the stairs rebuilt,” and I replied, “No need to get sexual with me.” I’m a bring my own elevator kind of lover anyway.

Xazaqazax

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

Tom Cullen

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

Roger Bannister

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

Emma Thompson

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Dante Alighieri

I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

Joanna Lumley

I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.

Kit Reed

Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.

Rachel Nichols

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Clockwork Princess