Ladders Quotes - Page 15

• You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Littles, Climbs, Willing

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.70, Penguin

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• Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

  Chris Hayes

  Oligarchy, Able, Way

  Chris Hayes (2012). “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy”, p.57, Crown

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• I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Trying, President

  "George H.W. Bush". From the collection: The Presidents, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.

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• The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Self Esteem, Numbers, Achievement

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• Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

  Alexandre Dumas

  Passion, World, Littles

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• That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moon, Frozen, Draws

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

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• Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Library, Legs

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

  Neil Gaiman

  Doctors, Amy, Bunk

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• The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Father, Book

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.230, Penguin UK

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• He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

  Abraham Verghese

  Climbing, Escaping, House

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• But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Clouds, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 21

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• It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Coffee, Kids

  "Why We Broke Up". Book by Daniel Handler, December, 2011.

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• My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

  Jim Butcher

  Friday, Fun, Rip

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.128, Penguin Group

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• Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall." "Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.

  Obert Skye

  Wall, Stupid, Thinking

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• My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
  Toward heaven still,
  And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
  Beside it, and there may be two or three
  Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
  But I am done with apple-picking now.
  Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
  The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Sleep, Winter

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

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• It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.

  Robin Leach

  Block, Fall, Hard Work

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  James Clavell, Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Step by step the ladder is ascended.

  George Herbert

  Perseverance, Persistence, Steps

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• There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

  Thomas Friedman

  Selfish, Real, Role Models

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• Back when I was younger, I would have no fear climbing a ladder. I couldn't wait to get to the top just so I could jump off. Now I am married and raising my two daughters, and I'm not a kid in the WWE any more. People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.

  Jeff Hardy

  Girl, Daughter, Home

  Source: www.si.com

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• Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Climbing, Hands, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Now the autumn shudders
  In the rose's root.
  Far and wide the ladders
  Lean among the fruit.
  Now the autumn clambers
  Up the trellised frame,
  And the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.
  Brighter than the blossom
  On the rose's bough
  Sits the wizened orange,
  Bitter berry now;
  Beauty never slumbers;
  All is in her name;
  But the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Autumn, Dust, Names

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

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• I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

  David Mitchell

  Biblical, Civilization, Miracle

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.487, Random House

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