#footing

What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#actor #along #always #challenging #constant

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. ↗

— John Dryden

#betray #cannot #dangers #does #footing

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#find #footing #forward #go #hold

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#benefit #benefits #bills #bottomless #business owners

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #carpet #find #footing #going

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#companies #criteria #determine #financially #footing

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#footing #lose #momentarily #oneself

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#agree #cannot #colleagues #compete #different