Ladder Quotes
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
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I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
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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.
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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
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People should not just look at people who are on top. They should go and study how they got there and the challenges they had to face as they while climbing the ladder.
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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.
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We have teams pressing us. We have teams that are almost in the same situation as we are. It would be great for us to step ahead of them and up the ladder in our standings.
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I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.
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Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.
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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
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One of the reasons why people come to America is that there are fewer speed bumps to the top of the ladder in comparison with other countries.
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I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful. I had put aside my own aspirations to go along with his. At every crisis of despair I had set aside my own crises to comfort him. I had disappeared into his minutes, into his hours, so that he could concentrate. I had taken care of the house, I had taken care of the meals, I had taken care of the children, I had taken care of all the boring details of everyday life, while he stubbornly climbed the ladder up from our unprivileged beginnings. And now, now he had left me, carrying off, abruptly, all that time, all that energy, all that effort I had given him, to enjoy its fruits with someone else, a stranger who had not lifted a finger to bear him and rear him and make him become what he had become.
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When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.
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If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.
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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.
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I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights.
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I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
