That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.
If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.
The path is revealed in the treading.
The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows. . . It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. . . Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known. . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.
That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
It is. . . treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that. " The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored of the tenets of not only fascism but also of Adolf Hitler himself. And you know, that was treading on a lot of toes.
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
