#staircase

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

#ashamed #end #immorality #morality #staircase

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#big #bottom #down #dramatically #fall

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. ↗

— Alberto Sordi

#failings #full #greet #italians #like

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#even #first #first step #see #staircase

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#ever #felt #had #i #live

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia? ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#climbing #else #exciting #here #i

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#climbing #i #i see #like #look

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. ↗

— Michelangelo

#find #heaven #loveliness #my soul #soul

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#going #grand #like #some #staircase