
“There's only one step down from here, baby. It's called the Land of Permanent Bliss.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
Source: Half Broke Horses
“There's only one step down from here, baby. It's called the Land of Permanent Bliss.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“I have come one step away from everything and here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”
He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.
Voces (1943)
“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu (1745); a translation and adaptation of Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit (1699) by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Source: Essai sur le mérite et la vertu
From Richard Bartle's blog http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2007/QBlog180507A.html, dated 18th May 2007
Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)
Context: I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don't know why. We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.
“Laughable rumors. I’m not stepping back or stepping down. You could say I’m stepping up.”
On the rumors of her stepping down as head of Caixin Media in "AP Interview: Chinese editor Hu Shuli steps aside, not down" in Associated Press (30 January 2018) https://apnews.com/article/china-censorship-business-international-news-asia-pacific-d1f0e45181c64cd0b1a978842a81affa
On what inspired him to say his famous words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
60 Minutes interview (2005)
“My body was flesh, which was only one step removed from shit, from clay, from dust.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.”
Source: (1974), Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 151