Levels Quotes - Page 22

• When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman does that, when she destroys the life of her unborn child, then we have arrived at the limit. The level cannot go higher regarding evil.

  Jim Caviezel

  Mother, Children, Son

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• Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

  Lucretius

  Heaven, Victory, Literature

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• Relationships never end, because they're of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit.

  Marianne Williamson

  Missing Someone, Mean, Soul

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 28, 2012

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• When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Practice, Meditation

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• We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Creativity

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• The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

  Walter Kirn

  Lines, Who We Are, Virtue

  Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.43, Anchor

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• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, Government, Sea

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• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  Carl Lewis

  School, Thinking, Needs

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• Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on.
  Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch.

  Louann Brizendine

  Sex, Stress, Block

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• Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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• Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Memories, People

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• At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

  Lawrence Kohlberg

  Expectations, Groups, Maintenance

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• So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

  Phil Lesh

  Art, Children, Humble

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

  Sandra Bernhard

  People, Records, Pay

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• It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.

  Barack Obama

  War, Eye, Thinking

  "Obama Talks With PBS’ Jim Lehrer". "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, talkingpointsmemo.com. December 23, 2009.

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• If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?

  Joseph J. Romm

  New Orleans, Government, Sea

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Years, Ice, Sea

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• The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Giving, Hatred

  "The State of the Union". Esquire Magazine, May 1975.

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• St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the senses. Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels.

  Charles Cumming

  Music, Silence, Solitude

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• The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Heart, Color, Water

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Able, Size

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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• This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

  Christopher Dawson

  Civilization, Political, Common

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.95, CUA Press

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• Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Years, Numbers, People

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• It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

  Jon Runyan

  Children, Years, Trying

  "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.

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