Ladders Quotes
303 quotes by 266 authors
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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
— William Butler Yeats
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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives…
— Anais Nin
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Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with…
— Max Brooks
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This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world…
— Alexandre Dumas
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to…
— Jim Butcher
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Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about…
— Obert Skye
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But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he…
— William Shakespeare
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
— Abraham Verghese
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The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!
— Neil Gaiman
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There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.
— Joseph Campbell
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Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water…
— Gordon Korman
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Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.â€-max
— James Patterson
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Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it…
— Cassandra Clare
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Wait, Saturday night?" The ladder-backed chair creaked and I looked up as he leaned forward to eye me in growing suspicion. "I thought you stayed…
— Rachel Vincent
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Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!
— Dave Ramsey
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Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of…
— Lisa Kleypas
Who Wrote These Ladders Quotes
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