Steep Quotes
137 quotes by 117 authors
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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the…
— Hesiod
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And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense;…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere…
— Aprilynne Pike
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My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who…
— Gabrielle Giffords
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That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese…
— Paul Volcker
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start…
— Tayari Jones
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Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped.…
— Yuri Gagarin
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great…
— Moby
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs…
— Stuart Wilde
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I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep…
— Dian Fossey
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,…
— John Milton
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We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences.…
— Clark Moustakas
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The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human…
— M. King Hubbert
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the…
— William Golding
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Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first:…
— William Shakespeare
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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other…
— Henry James
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Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the…
— Lloyd C. Douglas
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I work with a lot of music programs and there's a steep learning curve to a lot of them. You can really find yourself trying…
— Joe
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I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw him go into…
— James McCudden
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Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep…
— Chalmers Johnson
Who Wrote These Steep Quotes
117 authors contributed a total of 137 Steep Quotes, led by these top contributors: