(244 quotes found)
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”
C.S. Lewis
“Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.”
Bob Hope
“I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.”
W. C. Fields
“Today convenience is the success factor of just about every type of product and service that is showing steady growth.”
Charles G. Mortimer
“Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.”
Clive James
“Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.”
Charles Henry Parkhurst
“In these next 12 months what we'd like to see is the steady start of the return to the south, a peace agreement to be achieved in Darfur and the east, progressive improvement of security in Darfur and the start of the sustained return of refugees there,”
Antonio Guterres
“I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.”
Lauren Bacall
“Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.”
William Osler
