Midstep Quotes & Sayings

She [Susanna] realized she was still hugging the wall. Pride propelled her two steps forward. As she advanced, something bleated at her, as though chastising her for trespassing. She stopped midstep and peered at it. "Did you know there's a lamb in here?"
"Never mind it. That's dinner."
She gave it a smile and a friendly pat. "Hullo, Dinner. Aren't you a sweet thing."
"It's not his name, it's his ... function. — Tessa Dare

Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier. — Yogaswami

If ever there was a sentence more quickly imprinted in my consciousness, more oft repeated, one that stood as more of an arbiter against which to judge all else, I do not know it. In the beginning, the repetition was the numb sort, the words impenetrable. Only occasionally did they have the power to stop me midstep as I walked upstairs. Or seize my stomach as I ate. Or clear my head as I attempted to speak. — Miriam Gershow

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston

Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses. — Elijah Muhammad

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. — Bobby Jindal

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. — Warren Buffett

He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity. — Budd Schulberg

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. — Evelyn Waugh

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose. — Arthur Lynch

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful. — Gerry Cooney