Ladders Quotes - Page 6

• Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max

  James Patterson

  Max, Fantasy, Moments

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• Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it is punishable by death under the Law." Tessa thrust the book away from her as if it were on fire. "You can't be serious." "You're right. I'm not." Will leapt down from the ladder and landed lightly in front of her. "You do believe everything I say, though, don't you? Do I seem unusually trustworthy to you, or are you just a naive sort?

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Book, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Wait, Saturday night?" The ladder-backed chair creaked and I looked up as he leaned forward to eye me in growing suspicion. "I thought you stayed home." I shrugged and raised one eyebrow at him. "I thought I was human.

  Rachel Vincent

  Home, Eye, Night

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.223, Harlequin

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• Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

  Dave Ramsey

  May, Realizing, Building

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2011

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• Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Blue, Views, Sky

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Climbing

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• Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?

  Judith McNaught

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Rivers

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Tender Triumph”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Sorry, Glasses

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• Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Angel, Heaven

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• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  Michael Ende

  Love You, Men, Friendship Love

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• International football is one clog further up the football ladder

  Glenn Hoddle

  Football, International

  "Friday's football transfer rumours: Glenn Hoddle to Newcastle United?" by Les Roopanarine, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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• I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

  Charles Kennedy

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

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• To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

  Rose Macaulay

  Ambition, Lunch, Goal

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

  Robert Jastrow

  Simple, Years, Records

  Robert Jastrow (1969). “White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars”

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• When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.

  Djuna Barnes

  Boston, Color, Mind

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

  Tony Benn

  Looks, Politics, Littles

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• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Courage, Energy

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.81, H J Kramer

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• A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

  Doris Grumbach

  Hands, Fists, Grasping

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Rich, Globalization

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

  Robert Lowell

  Cat, Past, Climbing

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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• Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.

  Juan Donoso Cortes

  Men, Wings, Heaven

  "Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism". Book by Juan Donoso Cortes, 1879.

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• Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Past, Rich Countries

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.61, Random House

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• In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

  Arthur Middleton

  Dream, Reality, Medicine

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• In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Success, Order, Firsts

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• Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

  P. M. Forni

  Self Esteem, Eye, World

  P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.62, Macmillan

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