High Pedestal Quotes & Sayings

Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall ... you get crushed. — Mark W. Boyer

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect. — Eric Davis

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention. — James Hillman

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet. — Ian Macfarlane

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. — Naomi Campbell

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs. — Bill Keller

The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it. — Kevin Conroy

His lack of an immediate answer opened the door for doubt to creep into the mind of a woman who struggled to stay afloat in the pool of insanity. — Jewel E. Ann

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.' — Philip Yancey

He'd heard of this woman. The Dame de Doubtance, they called her: a madwoman and a caster of horoscopes. Gaultier gave her house-room and men and women came to her from all the known world and had their futures foretold - if she felt like it. She had given some help once to Lymond, on her own severe terms, because of a distant link, it was said, with his family. Plainly, a crazy old harridan. But if she was going to tell Lymond he ought to find a nice girl and marry her, Jerott wanted very much to be there. — Dorothy Dunnett

I feel your scorn, and I accept it. — Jon Stewart

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal. — Vivienne Westwood

As I said before, it is not of any importance where the guess comes from; it is only important that it should agree with experiment, and that it should be as definite as possible. — Anonymous

Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal. — Kit Harington

I have never been happier, or healthier, than I am right now. — Robin Roberts

I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down. — Megan Fox

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect. — Swami Vivekananda

So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind. This is the powerful, horrible longing that made Mother marry that miserable tyrant I had to call Father. How many unbelievably stupid heroes in stories did insanely dangerous things because they were in love? More to the pint, how many insane things am I going to do because of it? — Orson Scott Card

Con! Fuck!"

Male voice. Deep.

Con blinked, coming out of his haze to see Shade beneath him. Con's erection was pushed hard against Shade's thigh, and yeah....not cool.

Panting and shaking like a leaf, Con scrambled off him.

"Ah...I don't...that was, ah...not for you."

"I fucking hope not," Shade muttered.

~Con/Shade — Larissa Ione

The voyage of a lifetime starts at the windowsill. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

There are not nearly enough distractions and it can all get too bloody silent, which leaves room for dangerous things, like thinking. I — Yrsa Daley-Ward

You have that boy on such a high pedestal. It's far too slippery up there for one so unprincipled as a solitary fae. It's not as if I haven't tried to drag him down. I looked inside his soul. Hoped to find his weaknesses. Only to discover that even those could be considered strengths under the right circumstances. — A.G. Howard

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you. — Mark McGrath

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again. — Jay-Z

When people put you on the pedestal, don't come off it acting like you're humble. Because if they put you up there, that shows how high they can see. Stay there and pull them up, and they'll grow faster. — Victor L. Wooten

I
believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up
her dress. — Steve Martin

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts. — Daniel Goleman

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance
physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its 'national pastime' pedestal in less than fifteen years. — Hunter S. Thompson