Stride Quotes - Page 9

• I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Eye, Hair

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• Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Men, Space

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• The others had taken Valek's return in stride, although Janco made a comment about Valek's lack of hair. "You ever notice how couples start to look alike?" he asked. In a deadpan, Valek replied, "Yes. In fact I was just thinking how much you and Topaz resemble each other. It's uncanny.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Couple, Taken, Thinking

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.263, Harlequin

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• A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Long, Soldier

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Lying, Taken, Hero

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Well of Tears”, p.346, Pan Macmillan

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• Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Beach, Pain

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 2010.

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• Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips and kisses my mouth like I am the drink he's been dying for all day and I've heard girls say it's like melting, that feeling. But I think it's like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you've never seen before.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Kissing, Thinking

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.378, Penguin UK

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• Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.

  Richard Yates

  Jobs, Home, Intelligent

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• BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Book, Heart, Jewels

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• Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

  Paul Goldberger

  Atlanta, Cities, Denver

  "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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• Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Drunk, Joy

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• It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Disappointment, Distance, Ambition

  The Lady's Not For Turning, delivered 10 October 1980, Conservative Party Conference, Brighton

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• I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Impact, Pedals

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• Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Simple, Race, India

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• Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

  Betty Smith

  Wisdom, Humility, Understanding

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• The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Oil, Sides

  Jonathan Swift, “A Description Of A City Shower”

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• If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Believe, World, Happy With Yourself

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.72, Penguin

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• Faith is the ability to have trust in powers greater than yourself, to confidently stride into the unknown, and to believe in your own abilites-no matter what.

  David Wolfe

  Believe, Matter, Ability

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• While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Past, Years

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• Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Heart, Journey, Impact

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• The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Men, Rights

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1903). “PONKAPOG PAPERS”

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• I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.439, Yale University Press

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• For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
  was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
  Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Grief, Heart, Self

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• Only when something becomes a problem for "me" as one of my goal orientated actions, do I pause in full stride, as it were, in order to learn the competencies that I lack.

  Klaus Holzkamp

  Motivational, Order, Goal

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