Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In 2010, I put CrossFit on a pedestal and then, when I failed at it and got second, it was hard for me. — Rich Froning Jr Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People want to dethrone you from the pedestal that you're on when you have a platform, when you have a voice. — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want… — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In the gay world, and in drag in particular, they love to put you on a pedestal and then two minutes later… — Bianca Del Rio Copy Share Image
O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you hear so much and everybody is praising you, you can get lost in that. You can start thinking that… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down. — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne.… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
