Pedestal Quotes

• A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Space, Prison

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• The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humility, Science, Arrogance

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• A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wisdom, Strong, Men

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• I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

  Althea Gibson

  Successful, Want, Normal

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• You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

  Samantha Bond

  People, Way, Ifs

  "Samantha Bond: Don't call me Miss Moneypenny". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

  Linda D. Thompson

  Thinking, People, Humans

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.

  Max Lucado

  Steps

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

  Teresa Mummert

  Looks, Moments, Tricks

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• Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels

  Jill Shalvis

  Fall, Love Is

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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  Indra Devi

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

  Agnes Repplier

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

  Neal Shusterman

  Prison, Insidious

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Nice, People

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Real, Yoga

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• We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

  Bella Abzug

  Inspirational, Motivational, Women

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• If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Rooms, Type

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• Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Fall, Tall

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.92, Penguin

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• After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Daddy, Twelve

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.

  Honore Daumier

  Freedom, Justice For All, Justice

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• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  Barry Sanders

  Supposed To Be

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• Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Freedom, Fall, Hands

  "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

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• I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Beautiful, Jesus, Eye

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• I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, People, Trying

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