Steep Quotes

137 quotes by 117 authors

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the… — Louis Kronenberger
If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top. — Jeff Galloway
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of… — Ana Ortiz
Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and… — Carl Jung
Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap. — Ray Davies
The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to… — James Taylor
A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea… — Phoebe Stone
The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough… — William Prynne
Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! — William Shakespeare
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,… — Mark Twain
How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's… — John Milton
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. — Richard Lovelace
We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When… — Sidney Jourard
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession… — Edward Gibbon
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She… — Alice Meynell
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches. — Leo Burnett

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