Stairs Quotes - Page 2

• History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

  Voltaire

  Climbing, History, Boots

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• In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Climbing, Long

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• I summon to the winding ancient stair;
  Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

  William Butler Yeats

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Winding Stair and Other Poems: A Facsimile Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

  Thomas Adams

  Inspirational, Fall, Desire

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• You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

  Mark Twain

  Window, Habit, Break

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• However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  May, Levels, Despise

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• A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Water, Littles

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• A man falls down a flight of stairs and somebody rushes over to him and asks, Did you miss a step? No, he answers, I hit every one of them!

  Milton Berle

  Fall, Men, Missing

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• A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

  Franz Kafka

  Views, Woods, Boring

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!

  A. A. Milne

  Running, Somewhere Else, Nurse

  A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

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• An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

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• A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Steps, Window

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• No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

  Stella Young

  Flight, Made, Ramp

  "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.

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• When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down - not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fall, Hard Times, Drunk

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, October 4, 2011.

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• Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

  John Steinbeck

  Work, Men, Wrath

  Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14

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• Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed. "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs." "Really?" "Oh, yes." She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?" "They just are." "In what way?" "In a magicky way." She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?" "Not really.

  Derek Landy

  Darkness, Magic, Ordinary

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• There might be too many stairs to go up; ignore the stairs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Might

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• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Car, Choices, Crash

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• 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

  Fate, Steps, Dramatic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.711, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Love Is, Best Times

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• Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2009

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• Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

  Bernard Baruch

  Running, Heart, Two

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• As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Philosophy, Knowing, Space

  "Tracee Ellis Ross Gets Glam For Uptown Magazine ‘Hollywood’ Issue" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Running, People, Kind

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