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Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. -- Jason Ellis
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. -- Michelangelo
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. -- Samuel Johnson
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. -- Lisa Gardner
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. -- Bill James
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting. -- Ruth Rendell
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. -- Helmut Newton
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. -- Alan K. Simpson
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase. -- Christian Lacroix
Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another. -- Kris Carr
It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it? -- James Lee Burke
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. -- Patti Smith
From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward. -- Milan Kundera
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward. -- William Butler Yeats
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. -- Osamu Dazai
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. -- Robert Breault
It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces. -- Raekwon
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. -- David Sedaris
In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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