Great Leveler Quotes

#1. Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Ivor Brown

#2. Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

Frederick Douglass

#3. There is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#4. The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

David Byrne

#5. When a million little things go right, that's called success. Failure functions as the great leveler. When things don't go as planned, it's humbling. It's important to make mistakes along the way, or we would be impossible to live with.

Judy Frankel

#6. Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field.

Vinnie Tortorich

#7. The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

Vikas Swarup

#8. If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

Anita Borg

#9. In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.

Cheech Marin

#10. Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

Carly Fiorina

#12. Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

Gore Vidal

#13. Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

Rhys Ifans

#14. Time heals.
No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. Time was the great leveler, and neither money nor power held sway over its relentless march.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#17. But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

Katherine Anne Porter

#18. Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

Pauline Kael

#19. I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

Sheryl Crow

#20. Alexander Hamilton has been on the $10 since 1928, he's been well honored by the country, he was a great Secretary of the Treasury. But of all the people on the currency, the only one who isn't a president.

Grover Norquist

#21. I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.

Brian Regan

#22. Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.

Samuel Goldwyn

#24. About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

Tom Heinsohn

#25. In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Jim Butcher

#26. Each of these moments was a pearl on a string, one prettier and more perfect than the next.

Ann Brashares

#27. What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, "respond" rather than simply "react." In

Dan Harris

#28. For without progress there will be stagnation and decay.

J.K. Rowling

#29. You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

Freddy Adu

#30. I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable ...

Ralph Ellison