Step Away Quotes

#1. Sometimes," she said, "two people pass each other by, look into each other's eyes for a moment, and all that's left is a wish. A dream of what might have been. And then they move away from each other with every step, and away from all their dreams.

Kai Meyer

#2. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.

Johnny Marr

#4. When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.

Lupe Fiasco

#5. Walking away, I mentally hear glass cracking under my feet because I step right over my shattered heart.

Belle Aurora

#6. Moving away from someone or something Is like taking a step back to see better when you are too close to capture the details.

Rajuda

#7. Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run
each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away
each a small separation, a small distancing.

Lillian B. Rubin

#8. The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

Bill Walsh

#9. Then she took up her practice, not to prove her worth or to be seen, not in dignity or fear, but as though she were giving her whole life away as a gift to the world with every step.

Sallie Tisdale

#10. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

L.E. Horn

#11. Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.

Jesse Eisenberg

#12. You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

Les Claypool

#13. Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

Gary Numan

#14. When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Trends become more apparent as you step further away from the chart.

Ed Seykota

#16. The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

Jonathan Glover

#17. Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

Dogen

#18. I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

Allison Winn Scotch

#19. There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

Paolo Sorrentino

#20. I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

Marion Ross

#21. Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

Yvon Chouinard

#22. Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

Gerard Arpey

#23. Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.

Louis Sachar

#24. Elle slammed the reindeer cookie cutter down and viciously yanked the extra dough from around it. Her mother, brother, and sisters all stopped to stare at her. "Whoa. Put the reindeer down gently and step away from Santa,

Kathleen Brooks

#25. Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

Marco Rubio

#26. I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Jody Watley

#27. Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?

Charlize Theron

#28. No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

Hubie Brown

#29. I am suggesting that you take as many opportunities as possible in college to step away from whatever specialized program of study you have decided to pursue and have the kind of experience that the humanities can give you.

William Deresiewicz

#30. You can't go back. Can't fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference." She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. "From where I'm standing, you're the best step I ever took.

J.D. Robb

#31. Any place with a founder who brings a teddy bear to meetings," he writes, "is a step away from Jonestown.

Dan Lyons

#32. Our steel-tipped step-ladder arrows will let us rescue that injured stork that settled down on top of the obelisk and can't fly away!

Robert Bernstein

#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. You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

John Twelve Hawks

#35. I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

P.C. Cast

#36. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.

Shellie Palmer

#37. I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.

Flora Roberts

#38. Craig, he says, in that tone that's like, I'm one step away from middle-naming you.

Hannah Moskowitz

#39. The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.

Lamar Odom

#40. To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

Pico Iyer

#41. I have come one step away from everything.
And here I stay, far from everything,
one step away.

Antonio Porchia

#42. To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Craig Groeschel

#43. Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

Philip K. Dick

#44. I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Joe Frazier

#45. Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.

Kevin Madden

#46. Buddy, you have no idea what I am capable of. Now, put the rifle down on the ground. Step back and walk away. Then leave this place and do not ever come back. If you do that, I will let you live.

James J. Caterino

#47. I placed my hands on his chest and took a step away. "Sometimes I really don't like you."
"Key word to what you just said is sometimes, meaning not all the time, meaning most of the time you like me, and that's good enough for me.

Joddie Zeng

#48. My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

Justin Trudeau

#49. Maybe if you'd worn a shirt - "
"They said they didn't have a shirt!"
"Then I have nothing for you, my friend. You're trapped. I, however - "
"Take one step away from me, you Mr. Darcy wannabe, and I'll snap your spine.

Shelly Laurenston

#50. He plashed away, like paddles on water, toward the door, and every step he made returned to me gradually my feet, my hands, my fingers. My soul again spread equally throughout my body. I was able to breathe.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#51. A firefly blinked in front of me, and Lucille leaped off the step. It flew higher, but that dumb cat kept reaching for it. She didn't seem to know how far away it really was. Like the stars. Like a lot of things.

Kami Garcia

#52. Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Denis Diderot

#53. Take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected

Paulo Coelho

#54. The first step to understanding anything - whether it's the Bible or Fifty Shades of Grey - is acknowledging that we come to it with agendas of our own. We want it to mean something, we are biased whether we know it or not, and usually what we walk away with is what we want to walk away with.

Sierra Simone

#55. We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

John Henrik Clarke

#56. Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

Stacy London

#57. If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!

Tom Hodgkinson

#58. Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Nora Roberts

#59. If you are not for us, then you are against us! One day we will be living alongside you in those mansions. Your choice. Share or lose it all. We're going to take Africa away from its colonial masters. Step aside gracefully, we'll let you stay. Fight us and we'll drive you out.

Richard H. Mcbee Jr.

#60. One step is all it will take. Just put one foot across the threshold and we will make all the pain go away forever: the pain you feel now and the pain that is still to come. It will never happen.

Neil Gaiman

#61. Deciding not to run away is a crucial first step.

Suzanne Collins

#62. In a sense, I had to step away from the job to become the fuller man my family needed me to be.

Chris Kyle

#63. Recently, there's been a trend in America that I find very disturbing ... rewarding immoral and illegal behavior ... For example, we now give free needles to junkies, which seems to me to be only a step away from giving condoms to rapists.

Bill Maher

#64. You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

Lee Child

#65. I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

Mia Wasikowska

#66. This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.

John Butler

#67. I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

Drew Carey

#68. Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

Alexa Vega

#69. I still love the music and it's still plays a part in what I do but I never 'turned my back' on garage. I was always doing R&B with, say, Walking Away. It's wonderful that I was classed as the king of 2-step and a pioneer, but it's had its turn, I think.

Craig David

#70. It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#71. I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Kevin Hart

#72. The first step is askin' for help, baby. Let me help you. You don't have to be alone. Let me learn to breathe the ugliness you see. Let me share the darkness, Kadence. Just don't push me away.

River Savage

#73. It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#74. I've changed my mind. Stop inadequately playing human," I say. "Drop her hand and step away. Take a very big step.

Elizabeth May

#75. The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish.

Terry Eagleton

#76. That men, who might have tower'd in the van
Of all the congregated world, to fan
And winnow from the coming step of time
All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime
Left by men-slugs and human serpentry,
Have been content to let occasion die,
Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.

John Keats

#77. When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

Diego Maradona

#78. isn't telling a girl you just loooooove eating horsemeat one step away from saying you haven't lived 'til you've eaten puppy skewers?

Rachel Dratch

#79. My plans for today are to hang about hoping for a glimpse of her, to have my heart eaten away by the thought of her; to feel my blood bounding maddeningly, ridiculously, like a young boy's; to despair; to realise the weight of my misery and hunger with each step I take.

Elizabeth Taylor

#80. I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

Carrie Underwood

#81. Maybe a good person would step away before things went too far, but when it comes to Samuel Bradshaw, I am neither good nor bad. I'm only his.

Lexi Ryan

#82. Geez, you guys. I know I'm popular and all, but seriously, you're a bit too co-dependent for me. I'm going to need you to step away from my personal bubble." A wispy vine-woman curled ivy tendrils around his arm, and he sliced through them with his dagger. "No! Bad Wraith! No touchie!

Julie Kagawa

#83. 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

#84. To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity.

Debasish Mridha

#85. When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

Ted Dekker

#86. For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

Juvenal

#87. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Jandy Nelson

#88. He had only to arrive to take a step away from her.

Olivia Manning

#89. Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.

John Frusciante

#90. Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy ... or one step further away.

Shay Olivarria

#91. Step Away, Coffee. This Is A Job For Alcohol.

L.J. Shen

#92. With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

Sarah Waters

#93. Every step towards your dream today is a step away from your regret tomorrow.

Steve Maraboli

#94. She started to turn, but before she could step away, Tamani grabbed her hand. Without breaking eye contact, he raised her hand to his face and brushed his lips over her knuckles.

Aprilynne Pike

#95. Luck is just a step away from fate.

Ranae Rose

#96. I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

Taylor Lautner

#97. I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

Clive Owen

#98. No, but I imagine there's a gun tucked away somewhere on your body. And I know what you can do with that, hotshot."
He took a step toward her. "With what, sweetheart? With the gun? Or the body?

Lynn Raye Harris

#99. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away ... forever.
The Joker

Alan Moore

#100. You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

Victor Wooten