Steady Quotes - Page 17

• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Independent, Men

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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• [In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Science, Progression, Something New

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• Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

  Harper Lee

  People, Confederate, Made

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Soul, Important, Satisfaction

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• A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Integrity, Sensitive, Clean

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• and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Struggle, Dark, Hands

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Misrepresentation, Origin Of Species

  1859 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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• There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Rain, Moon, Gone

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!

  Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

  Men, Sea, Sky

  Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Stanley Appelbaum (2006). “Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

  Sara Sheridan

  Erosion, Issues, Liberty

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• Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Work, Shining

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• There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Work, Men, Perfect

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• We are well-placed internationally right now and this government has been very clear in stating that our continued concern and vision for this country is to see that long-term economic growth and prosperity, build on the track record of one million net new jobs. These are things Canadians want -- to have steady hands on the tiller and that's what's been done today.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

  E. O. Wilson

  Years, Storm, World

  "The Diversity of Life". Book by Edward O. Wilson, 1992.

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• Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Strong, Men, Kitchen

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• What is our hope but the indwelling Spirit of Christ, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to inspire every word and deed by His love? Then will "broken lights" blend in steady shining, the fractional be summed up in the integral, and life, unified and beautified by the central Christ, radiate God's glory, and shine with divine effulgence.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Light, Broken, Shining

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Epic, Rushing

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• Steady work turns genius to a loom.

  George Eliot

  Genius, Turns

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3694, ShandonPress

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• Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friends, Wise, Surly

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.121

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• I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Mom, Jobs, Feelings

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• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  Laura Mennell

  School, College, Class

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• Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Effort, Sometimes

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

  Henry Rollins

  Secret, Employment, Downtime

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.

  David Hume

  Taken, Passion, Reality

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.311

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• I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Thinking, President

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