Ladders Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Lying, Heart, Rags

  Last Poems (1939) "The Circus Animals' Desertion" pt. 3

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• Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Fall, Trying

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• Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

  Louis C. K.

  Being Popular, Audience

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. June 29, 2010.

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• The cross is the ladder to heaven.

  Thomas Draxe

  Heaven, Crosses

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• What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Today, Firsts

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

  Huey Lewis

  Religious, Climbing, Religion

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• Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

  Dave Eggers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Want

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.18, Vintage

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• My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Son, Thinking

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• Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Hands, Pockets

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• I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.

  Hattie Carnegie

  Thinking, Climbs

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• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Science, Doe

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• I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Climbing, Way, Building

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• In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

  Zoe Saldana

  Class, Levels, Rich

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Gravitation, Sheer, Eminence

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.719, e-artnow

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• Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

  Rose of Lima

  God, Faith, Christian

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• I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Blow, Wind, America

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

  Lois Wyse

  Business, Moving, People

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

  Jo Nesbo

  Editors, Play, Novelists

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• Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Thinking, Often Is

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

  Mick Foley

  Heaven, Elbows, World

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• To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

  George MacDonald

  Judging, Religion, Staring

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7411, Delphi Classics

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• Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

  Joan Jett

  Lines, Reach Out, Ups & Downs

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

  James Allen

  Spiritual, Pain, Errors

  James Allen (2015). “The Way to Peace”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mean, Fate, Missing

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