Steep Quotes - Page 2

• On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will
  Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

  John Donne

  Truth, Hills, Huge

  John Donne, William Blake (1946). “The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: & the Complete Poetry of William Blake”

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• The road back to God is not nearly so steep nor is it so difficult as some would have us believe.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Difficult

  Twitter post from Mar 06, 2015

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• Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

  Seth Godin

  Progress, Tasks, Path

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• For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

  Dennis Prager

  Mean, Acceptance, Tolerance

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Aug 27, 2013

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• And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Mother, Coffee, Heart

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.27, Algonquin Books

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• Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

  Stuart Wilde

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

  C. S. Lewis

  Scripture, Persons, Subjects

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• For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Mean, Night

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells letters: the correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Winter, Roots, Wind

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• Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

  Hesiod

  Men, Sweat, Long

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• Let us lie down once more by the breathing side
  Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep
  As if the Known Sea still were a month wide--
  Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

  Allen Tate

  Lying, Ocean, Sleep

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

  Luther Burbank

  Fighting, Blow, College

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ease, Path, Virtue

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Thinking, Two, May

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Grief, Wine, Liberty

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Lonely, Real, Self

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• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Greatness, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

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• She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

  Alice Meynell

  Sleep, White, Sheep

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

  Charles R. Jackson

  Technology, Curves, Growth

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• The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fall, Squares, Bridges

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Shadow of Innsmouth”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

  Leo Burnett

  Honor, And Love, Hell

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.

  William Mountford

  Men, Shadow Of Death, Valleys

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.471

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