Steady Quotes - Page 26

• The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

  A. E. Housman

  Light, Luck, Lovers Meeting

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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• The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, War, Men

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• My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Fun, Journey, Careers

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• Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.

  Julie Chen

  Jobs, Winning, Race

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• Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.

  Dianna Agron

  Jobs, Two, Careers

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

  Justin Cronin

  Fiction, Grew Up, Apocalyptic

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• It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

  Alexis Bledel

  Years, Sides, Tvs

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• Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

  John Hay

  Friendship, Sunshine, Men

  John Hay (1913). “Poems”

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• One cannot rest except after steady practice.

  George Ade

  Practice

  George Ade (1985). “The Best of George Ade”

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• Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

  Eudora Welty

  Learning, Childhood, Pulse

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

  Channing Tatum

  Balance, Kind, Film

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• A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

  A. A. Gill

  Peace, War, Boys

  A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

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• Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.

  Steven Weinberg

  Change, Dark, Science

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• The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Way

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• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Breathing, Growth

  "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

  Tim DeKay

  Jobs, Character, Different

  "My Favorite Weekend: Tim DeKay of 'White Collar'". Interview with Mark Sachs, articles.latimes.com. July 16, 2010.

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• You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Father, Thinking, Two

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• I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

  Kelly Reilly

  Thinking, Drawing, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

  Mojo Nixon

  Dad, Pigs, Social Taboos

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• I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

  Ray Davies

  Jobs, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Song: Top of the Pops

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• Pause and remember - Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up.

  Jennifer Young

  Giving Up, Want, Too Much

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• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Careers, Progress, Remarkable

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• Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

  Hu Jintao

  Office, Effort, Growth

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

  Joni Mitchell

  Rip, Poetry, Ready

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• The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Progress, Expansion

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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