Small Strides Quotes & Sayings

Some sheep were bleating away beside the track, pressed tight into a pen much too small. Foraged, no doubt, meaning stolen, some unlucky shepherd's livelihood vanished down the gullets and out the arses of Black Dow's army. Behind a screen of hides, not two strides from the flock, a woman was slaughtering 'em and three more doing the skinning and gutting and hanging the carcasses, all soaked to the armpits in blood and not caring much about it either. Two lads, probably just reached fighting age, were watching. Laughing at how stupid the sheep were, not to guess what was happening behind those hides. They didn't see that they were in the pen, and behind a screen of songs and stories and young men's dreams, war was waiting, soaked to the armpits and not caring. — Joe Abercrombie

Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Christ - the modern equivalent of which is Superman! — Eli Of Kittim

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else. — Frederick Lenz

At the very outset of the Christian life these two things should be very distinct with you
sin which has ruined you, and Christ who has saved you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost. — A.S.A Harrison

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself. — Gary Zukav

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life. — Fran Lebowitz

For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying to take those strides forward to find a place to sing, to make a music career. It was small increments, but I always knew that I had to take the next opportunity. — Jimi Westbrook

Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time? — Nancy Werlin

Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.
p. 1 ... Before My Eyes ... look for it on 2.11.14 — Caroline Bock

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys. — Judith Crist