#pedestal

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

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#i #i think #joy #lot #out

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#i #just #know #me #needs

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'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

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#pedestal #put #society #someone #teachers

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

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect. ↗

— Eric Davis

#because #expect #good #high #his

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