Quotes with step-mother

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Richard Thalheimer Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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  • John Paul II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Antonio Porchia He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Alan Bean History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Ken Dodd Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
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  • Samuel Smiles Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • John Milton How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Joan Didion I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Audre Lorde I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Mother Teresa I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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