"History is not an escalator." — Max Eastman

More Escalator Quotes

This quote is filed under Escalator Quotes, one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps. — Glen Sather
• Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. — Mitch Hedberg
• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret,… — Roger Ebert
• The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace,… — Edward Dahlberg
• The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.… — Lewis B. Smedes
• The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't… — Joseph Roth
• Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. — Robert Reich
• In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. — Amy Waldman
• The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better… — Charles Martinet
• I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and… — Kanye West
• The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to… — Lewis B. Smedes
• Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost… — Leonard Woodcock

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