#pedestal

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

— Guy Kawasaki

#pedestal #put #society #someone #teachers

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

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

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#i #i think #mighty #pedestal #set

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

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

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

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

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

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