Step Quotes

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

You have to step up when your number is called.

If I step on a scale, I won't eat for five months.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.