Water Steps Quotes

#1. As always, we sit on the narrow steps that lead from the Old Bridge down to the sandbar. A pale silver moon trembles on the face of the water. A wooden boat lashed to a post modulates the sound of the current. Sitting with her, I feel her warm against my arm.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Don't disappear. Become unavoidable. XOXO GOSSIP GIRL

Dan Humphrey

#3. People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

Michael J. Fox

#4. Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

George Carlin

#5. Perfection, rather, is the ability to incorporate imperfection! There's no other way to live: You either incorporate imperfection, or you fall into denial. That's how the Spirit moves in or out of our lives. - from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

Richard Rohr

#6. What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

Pocahontas

#7. If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

#8. When in doubt, take baby steps, taste the water and be cautious all the way. When assured, hit the road, jump in the sea and swim away from the shore to connect with your dreams

Sameh Elsayed

#9. In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck.

Tony Trischka

#10. I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.

James E. Faust

#11. Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.

P.L. Travers

#12. You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Sonia Braga

#13. If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.

Simone Weil

#14. If a flock of chickens is without water on a hot day, and all you have to do to prevent them from dying slowly and painfully is turn on a tap, you ought to turn it on. If to do so you have to walk a few extra steps in shoes that pinch your little toe, you ought to walk those few extra steps.

Peter Singer

#15. Some days I sit in the rocker,
the quilt about me though it's hot outside.
I shun the sunlight,
groan to think of the water I must fetch,
the steps I'll have to take,
the work that's needed
just to exist.

Caroline Starr Rose

#16. It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.

Isaac Watts

#17. Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

Julie Delpy

#18. It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings. So to actually introduce something evil or bad was quite hard for me.

Brian Froud

#19. Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Another growl came, and then very heavy footsteps - like T-rex-shaking-the-water-cup-jurassic-park-style heavy foot steps.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#21. Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

Hamza Yusuf

#22. If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again.

Brian Regan

#23. I caught Bast's arm when she was a few steps from the bank.
"Stay away from the water."
She frowned. "Carter, I'm a cat. I'm not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank.

Rick Riordan

#24. This Boston voice squeaking out its song. The yellow light goes out the window on the stubs of windy grass and black rocks. And down the wet steps by gorse stumps and rusty heather to the high water mark and diving pool. Where the seaweeds rise and fall at night in Balscaddoon Bay.

J.P. Donleavy

#25. How are you feeling?" "Your eyes look like chocolate," I mumbled. He smiled. "And yours look like the morning sky." "Can I have water?" "Yes. Lots," he promised. "Let's get her upstairs," he said to someone else. And I fell asleep to the rocking of his steps.

Kiera Cass

#26. You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

Dave Pelzer

#27. It didn't matter to him, he realized, whether he had to swim the distance or walk on water, as wonderful as the latter was. What mattered was that Jesus was with him. Perhaps he was beginning to trust him after all, even if it was only in baby steps.

Wm. Paul Young

#28. I thought: yes, Lila is right, the beauty of things is a trick, the sky is the throne of fear; I'm alive, now, here, ten steps from the water, and it is not beautiful, it's terrifying; along with this beach, the sea, the swarm of animal forms, I am part of the universal terror.

Elena Ferrante

#29. He stared at me. "You have a sexual fantasy in which I'm a virgin?".

Sylvia Day

#30. The core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

Philip Yancey

#31. I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

Adam Carolla

#32. In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.

Richard Paul Evans