#pedestal

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

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#become #chasing #get #pedestal #people

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 tended to place my wife under a pedestal. ↗

— Woody Allen

#pedestal #place #tended #under #wife

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

I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down. ↗

— Megan Fox

#celebrity #down #going #high #how

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

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#i #known #little #more #nice

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#caprice #first-step #freedom #grammar #hidden-reason