Quotes with steadily

  • At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
  • Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.

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  • Susan Sontag Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Salvador Dali At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Martha Gellhorn I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Cecil B. DeMille Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
    Cecil B. DeMille
    American filmmaker (1881 - 1959)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Barry Diller Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Cecil B. DeMille The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
    Cecil B. DeMille
    American filmmaker (1881 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Aldous Huxley Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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