#pedestal

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. ↗

— Michael Musto

#consider #difference #even #fact #fame

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 was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual. ↗

— John Sexton

#during #exceptional #experience #frequently #great

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

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. ↗