Ceilings Quotes - Page 2

• Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

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• Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

  Grover Norquist

  Insulting, President, Debt

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• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Hair, Looks

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• I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

  Tony Kushner

  Dream, Believe, School

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• I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

  John Mayer

  School, Blessing, Years

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• The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.

  Martin Filler

  Office, Towers, Exotic

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• Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Strong, Men, Kitchen

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• When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Children, Heart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fall, Principles, Ifs

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• I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

  David Bromstad

  Dark, Thinking, Color

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• Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Beauty, Moving, Important

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• You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

  Charles Simeon

  Faith, Prayer, Humble

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654

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• Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

  Paul Molitor

  Character, Goal, Mind

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• If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.

  David Easton

  Feet, Giving, Want

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• My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

  Mark Messier

  Hard Work, People, Jersey

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• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.

  Wavy Gravy

  Laughter, Pressure, Valve

  "Interview: Wavy Gravy : Saint Misbehavin'". Interview with Richard Whittaker, www.conversations.org. December 21, 2010.

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• America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

  Peter Welch

  Football, America, Political

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• Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

  Madeleine Albright

  Glasses, Broken, Glass Ceiling

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Kings, Pigs, Sea

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• Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

  Eddie Vedder

  Believe, Breathing, Flesh

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• Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

  Sappho

  Song, Sky, Mars

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• Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.

  Holly Robinson Peete

  Artist, Glasses, Names

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• I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.

  Michael Beckwith

  Secret, Talent, Individual

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 17, 2012

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• When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

  Chinua Achebe

  Thought Provoking, House, Fallen

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.18, Heinemann

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