I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

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.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.