Quotes About Tiptoeing

#1. Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die ... " Life can get away from you.

Tony Campolo

#2. We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

Stephen Baxter

#3. I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes
those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all!

Mark Victor Hansen

#5. There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

Bono

#6. No more stalemates because they thought her unqualified and unhinged.
No more tiptoeing around a room because women oughtn't to run. To shout. To rule.
And above all: no more blighted regrets.

Susan Dennard

#7. All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

Shane Claiborne

#8. The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.

Ian Doescher

#9. There was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: "Who dah?" He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.

Mark Twain

#10. Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

Diane Arbus

#11. That's the problem with mistakes. You can make'em in an instant. Years upon years spent tiptoeing about like a fool, then you take your eye away for a moment and ... Bang.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Lauren Mayberry

#13. Playing it safe and tiptoeing through life is exhausting. Keeping all of your gifts trapped inside tires the crap out of you. It takes the same amount of effort to create something extraordinary as it takes to create something ordinary.

Lysa Mateu

#14. Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for a moment she felt herself to be a girl who has come down off a porch to confront a great darkness with a tiny light.

Laini Taylor

#15. There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

Casey Wilson

#16. I felt like we were tiptoeing over a sheet of ice that could break any minute.

Ava Dellaira

#17. The woods felt like a sleeping monster worth tiptoeing past.

Ali Shaw

#18. Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

Neal Stephenson

#19. It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.

Gretta Mulrooney

#20. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Kim Edwards

#21. I'll always be the baby in the family. I'm the youngest sister, but growing up with so many boys, it makes you tough. You get teased. There's no tiptoeing around each other. You say it the way it is; you're honest.

Nicola Peltz

#22. But after a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines.

Victoria Schwab

#23. APRIL CAME TIPTOEING IN BEAUTIFULLY that year with sunshine and soft winds for a few days; and then a driving northeast snowstorm dropped a white blanket over the world

L.M. Montgomery

#24. Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#25. I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.

Judith Orloff

#26. Now it was growing late again, and cooler, which the nurse found disorienting. It felt as though her entire life had been lived from dusk to dawn ever since she learned of Phillip, only tiptoeing around the edges of sunset or sunrise, and sleeping or traveling all day.

Cherie Priest

#27. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

John Updike

#28. She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila's intelligence.

Elena Ferrante

#29. But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast.

Alastair Reynolds

#30. The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carl Sandburg

#31. We must strongly resist reductions in diversity, especially when it happens, either directly or indirectly, because of our own activities.

David Brandon

#32. Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

David Steinberg

#33. And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

Jojo Moyes

#34. I'm going to fuck you, and it's going to turn your world on its ass when I do. You will be so strung out over my cock, you'll ache for it like a junkie.

Courtney Lane

#35. There's plenty of blame to go around. But without them, I would not have been part of a larger plot to overthrow the Capitol or had the wherewithal to do it.

Suzanne Collins

#36. The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

Larry Burkett

#37. A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.

M.G. Hardie

#38. Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.

Tommy Tenney