One Step Ahead Two Steps Back Quotes & Sayings

Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well. — Ivan Fernandez Anaya

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. — Robert Grosseteste

The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter. — Philip Pullman

It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that. — Jay Asher

I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also. — Wes Fesler

The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all. — Matshona Dhliwayo

This is how it all begins. With Zephyr and Fry - reigning neighborhood sociopaths - torpedoing after me and the whole forest floor shaking under my feet as I blast through air, trees, this white-hot panic. You're going over, you — Jandy Nelson

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter. — Carroll Bryant

Yes, I thought, everything changed with time. That was the problem, wasn't it? — Aimee Carter

And not to serve for a table-talk. — Michel De Montaigne

All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most. — Gregory Maguire