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"Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside."
"When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone."
"With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand."
"What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart."
"I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional."
"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion."
"We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street."
"Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power"
"There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here."
"I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back."
"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is."
"I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me."
"O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb"
"The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive."
"Don't step on my blue suede shoes."
"Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship."
"No more free steps to heaven."
"Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder."
"The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there--and He cares--about every step and every breath."
"Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment."
