Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
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.
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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.
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.
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!
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