#pedestal

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#beautiful #chapter #evidence #great #i

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

#just #life #live #make #normal

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#know #pedestal #place #praising #sky

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

— Agnes Repplier

#distorts #earthly #false #gods #laughed

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#kids #like #pedestal #put #you

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

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

— Gloria Steinem

#confined #confined space #much #pedestal #prison

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#dead #enough #every #hasten #leap

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

#always #am #beautiful #beautiful thing #better

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#certain way #dress #life #like #long