Being Leveled Quotes

#1. As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

Chely Wright

#2. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

Tony Blair

#3. If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

Fred Bear

#4. Are you saying that the people here aren't desperate? I think you're wrong. I think they are and they just don't know it.
Oh, they're desperate, all right, but so desperate that they're clinging to what they have.

Julianna Baggott

#5. Since 1960, there have been more plastic syringes available than anyone could need. And yet, for the decades since then, WHO has done NOTHING to stop the spread of vicious diseases that result from the mass re-use of dirty needles.

Jon Rappoport

#6. In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Douglas MacArthur

#8. But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

Louis Sachar

#9. Near the bottom, somebody fell, and rolled down. Somebody else said it was Copperfield. I was angry at that false report, until, finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foundation for it.

Charles Dickens

#10. European starvation was rather more cunning and wore a series of clever masks: death came by drink, by tuberculosis, by the knife, by despair in all its manifestations.

Alan Furst

#11. The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Avicenna

#12. I'm sorry I was so hard on you. I nearly pushed you away - "
"Impossible," he said. "Don't you know yet? If I ever lost you, I'd lose myself.

Jill Shalvis

#13. Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Gloria Swanson

#14. I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.

Ahmed H. Zewail

#15. Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

Sara Sheridan

#16. I'd spent my life searching for something I couldn't name.
And as I drowned in the torrential flow of conflicting desires, caught in the relentless roar of water, earth, blood, and war, I reached out - wildly, desperately - and found it with him.

Emma Raveling