Quotes About Stepping Away

#1. And his stomach growled in response. He felt a pang of something, deep inside, a hole he hadn't known existed, and he dropped the cloth, stepping away, turning back to the small living space. A home, that was what this was. Had he ever had one?

Alessandra Torre

#2. The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#3. You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?

Lauren Kate

#4. Excuse me soldiers, but do you mind stepping away from your lady friends?"
We were here for the prostitutes.
"And why should we do that crypt Keeper?

Khalia Hades

#5. Sometimes it takes stepping away from everything to see the things that are wrong.

R.K. Ryals

#6. I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Laurieann Gibson

#8. I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Laurence Fishburne

#9. Then he was stepping back, away, letting distance flood between us again. His voice was low, rough. "Give 'em hell, darlin'."
"And for the love of God, bitch, don't get stabbed this time!" Vida added.

Alexandra Bracken

#10. What's the hurry?" he said
"This door is locked," Tully told him.
"So?"
"Can you pick a lock?"
"I'll give it a try."
"Be my guest" Tully said, stepping to one side.
Pap blew the lock away with the shotgun. He pushed the door open with the barrel.

Patrick F. McManus

#11. Kisses are like cardiograms. They reveal how serious the illness is.

Rom Amor

#12. One thing that kept me from being unhappy was the mountains, for with mountaintops to see, a body can't quite despair.

Florence Maule Updegraff

#13. A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

T. S. Eliot

#14. It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

#15. Uh, Anna?" Stepping back from her, he poked a finger into her stomach. "What happened to you?" Anna batted his hand away, her lips tightening in a classic, hormonal mood swing. "You happened to me ... ass hat.

S.C. Stephens

#16. And, my friend, above all things, you most definitely, definitely, do not get away with stepping over the red rope.

Adrienne Kress

#17. When you take a book away from a child, you are taking a child away from a stepping stone.

C.L. Collyer

#18. I'm a teammate guy, so whatever I can do to help my team to win like I have the past two years, that's what I want to do. If it takes for me to play first base, third base, right field, I just want to win the game.

Albert Pujols

#19. You understand that Mauve and turquois are not food items, but that they're colors.

Chad Eastham

#20. I stumbled away. I pressed the back of my hand to my mouth and just looked at
him. "What was that?"
His chest rose and fell heavily. "A kiss."
"Why?"
"Why?" He laughed. His blue eyes suddenly looked so sad. "Because I've wanted to do that for twenty years.

Elizabeth Morgan

#21. At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

Andy Richter

#22. A cracker kid in a designated white house in a black neighborhood off in fly- bitten Mississippi was about to let loose the secret beat of race music, forever blowing away the enriched-flour, box stepping public.

Richard Powers

#23. You can't kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book ... but surely the minuet
the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still.

Ford Madox Ford

#24. Roadway. We didn't stop at the house, but instead rounded the corner and stopped a block away. Stepping out and

James Patterson

#25. This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

Pema Chodron

#26. Last summer, her research uncovered articles in the Paynesville Press in 1986 and 1987. They detailed six unsolved sexual assaults on boys just two years before Wetterling's abduction.

Anonymous

#27. Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

Cynthia Nixon

#28. With shrunken fingers
we ate our oranges and bread,
shivering in the parked car;
though we know we had never
been there before,
we knew we had been there before.

Margaret Atwood

#29. To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

Cornel West

#30. The detectives slide back on the digital timeline to the moment when Mendelssohn steps out into the snowstorm: there is something of the Greek epic about it, the old gray man with his walking stick, venturing out, into the snow, out of frame and away, like an ancient word stepping off a page.

Colum McCann

#31. Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

Tupac Shakur

#32. When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.

Mary Rodgers

#33. Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.

Mary E. Pearson

#34. Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.

Mary Shelley