Steeled Quotes

#1. Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.

James Anderson

#2. I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. She steeled her spine. "Like Boleyn to the chopping block."
Anna smirked. "Queen of England, are we?"
Mara shrugged. "Something to aspire to.

Sarah MacLean

#4. Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.

Elizabeth Inchbald

#5. I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn't laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.

Miranda July

#6. He raised his bony fingers as if to touch me and I steeled myself not to flinch as his hand, still smoldering, neared my face.
He rattled and spoke his last words. Worth ... the ... fall.

Gwen Hayes

#7. Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.

Alanis Morissette

#8. If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.

Charles Darwin

#9. I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took solace in the fact that if this demonstration went horribly wrong, I could probably outrun them.

Conor Grennan

#10. Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

Nelson Mandela

#11. I watched him depart, steeled myself and then walked over to Kanin, who hadn't moved from his place in the corner.
"That was interesting." he mused in a toneless voice as I joined him along the wall. "I assume that last display was solely for my benefit?

Julie Kagawa

#12. Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Diana opened her eyes and steeled her resolve. Some days, she decided, freedom meant the wind in your hair and the sun on your face and lips swollen with forbidden kisses.
And other days, freedom meant killing an eel.

Tessa Dare

#14. The week was a wound he hadn't even steeled himself to look at yet. Yet he felt it bleed.

Bill Beverly

#15. An ugly blue- steeled Mauser leaped into his hand as his finger curled hungrily around its trigger.

Richard Sale

#16. Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Vint Cerf

#17. Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul"
He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?"
"It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#18. To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

Nathanael Greene

#19. I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [ ... ]
Instead he kissed me.

Richelle Mead

#20. You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.

Tobe Hooper

#21. I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business.

Cullen Bunn

#22. But I can't go back. I can only explore today and enjoy it as I move forward.

Roland Byrd

#23. Miracles start to happen when you put as much energy into your dreams as you do into your fears. Richard Wilkins

Lucy H. Pearce

#24. I'm a huge gamer.

Taran Killam

#25. There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#26. My suggestion for the young graduate is to go work for someone else and be a sponge, soaking up all the knowledge you can about the profession before heading out on your own.

Keith Granet

#27. The care he always took with his own appearance and behavior. "Just because you cannot see a woman does not mean she does not see you." Oh, Burrich. The extra time he still took, grooming a horse that she seldom rode anymore.

Robin Hobb

#28. You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Herman Melville