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130 Pedestal quotes by 119 unique authors

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. — Guy Kawasaki
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes… — Henry Mintzberg
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors,… — Eugene H. Peterson
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on… — Steven Spielberg
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. — Gloria Steinem
Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support. — Jesse Ventura
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a… — Jodi Picoult
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one. — H.G. Wells
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. — Novalis
And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you… — Jodi Picoult
I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the… — Loretta Chase
Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels — Jill Shalvis
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals… — Cormac McCarthy
To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws. — Chris Colfer
He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death.… — Ellen Hopkins
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased… — Douglas Hofstadter
He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna… — Walter Isaacson
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If… — Mother Teresa
Please," he whispered. His voice was low but clear. "Don't hurt me anymore." Attolia recoiled. Once, as a child, she'd thrown her slipper in a… — Megan Whalen Turner
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there. — Betty Grable
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. — Bella Abzug
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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