Leveled Quotes

#1. These days we don't have to fit into something other people think we are. We've leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I'm a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle - we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.

Mariska Hargitay

#2. The look she leveled on him was pure aunt.

Seanan McGuire

#3. The Lord did not make me impossible of error. All I've had to offer you is the total dedication in serving you as best I know how. And I've always leveled with you, and always will, knowing full well that everyone will not agree with me.

Jesse Helms

#4. One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

Paul Simon

#5. You don't have to fight anyone for me," she said.
"Except you."
Oh God. He leveled her with a few words and searing looks. She felt herself in a dizzying plunge, wanting the flight, worried about the landing. "I give as much as I am able," she said.
"I know," he answered.

Zoe Archer

#6. The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

George Will

#7. The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros's work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

Andre Breton

#8. There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Fredrik Bajer

#9. My girl, always hated frogs," Jackie stated when she'd controlled her hilarity.
"That's right, Mom," Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, "I'm a girl therefore I hate frogs. I'd get kicked out of the girl club if I didn't.

Kristen Ashley

#10. The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.
Charley, The Voice of the Butterfly

John Nichols

#12. We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

Eldridge Cleaver

#13. Don't worry. It'll never happen again. You know me, I do date occasionally, but I usually spend at least a few normal, boring days with a guy before we rock the house down. Of course, no one ever rocked my house down the way this guy did. He leveled the mother to its foundations. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Emily Bronte

#15. 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

#16. Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

P. Chidambaram

#17. If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

Charles Krauthammer

#18. God went down to get your badge since you were in the cave so long." Ruxs smirked. "You guys kiss and make up?" Steele swiveled around and leveled a hard look at him and replied with a clipped, "Yep." Before

A.E. Via

#19. The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.

Adam LaVorgna

#20. Of all the charges which have been leveled against me," he is quoted as saying in the Nuremberg Interviews, "the so-called looting of art treasures by me has caused me the most anguish.

Robert M. Edsel

#21. They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. Charlotte leveled him with a glare the likes of which he had never seen in synthetic women. It seemed to penetrate his every cell, as though she were watching him decay one picosecond at a time

Madeline Ashby

#23. I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn't agreed to come with me I wouldn't have come. Don't underestimate her importance. She's mine. Respect that.

Abbi Glines

#24. He leveled his gaze on her - the intensity there whispering promises she couldn't fathom - and she shivered.

Katherine McIntyre

#25. The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

James Dwight Dana

#26. Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

Isaiah Washington

#27. Simon leveled the gun at Will again. 'Now,' he said casually, 'someone's gonna die here in the next minute.'
On the other side of the two-way mirror, Sammy took aim.
'That's exactly right,' she whispered.

Jenna Brooks

#28. Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

Paul Begala

#29. normal is just a leveled off version of every kind of weird.

Bill D. Allen

#30. [T]he artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted ...

Thomas Jefferson

#31. Logan felt raw inside from the look of betrayal she had leveled on him. Who was he to demand honesty when every aspect of his presence in her life, even on the periphery, was a lie?

Cindy Skaggs

#32. How can you be so sure about me?" He leveled his spellbinding gaze on my face. "When you've been in the dark as long as I have, moy angel, there is no mistaking the light.

Kresley Cole

#33. Indeed, not all attacks - especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin - are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Hans Selye

#34. You would use your body to get what you want?"
"In a heartbeat."
He was hurt. I could feel it echo through him. He stepped closer again, leveled his face inches from mine, and whispered in the softest of voices, "Whore.

Darynda Jones

#35. drama is by its very nature alien to genuine polyphony; drama may be multi-leveled, but it cannot contain multiple worlds; it permits only one, and not several, systems of measurement. Secondly,

Mikhail Bakhtin

#36. Our people" have functioned in this country for nearly a century as political weapons, the trump card up the enemies' sleeve; anything promised Negroes at election time is also a threat leveled at the opposition; in the struggle for mastery the Negro is the pawn.

James Baldwin

#37. The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were - sex, race, tax bracket - death leveled it all out.

J.D. Robb

#38. The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#39. There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable ... in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.

P. J. O'Rourke

#40. Dex leveled a fake-sultry gaze at me. Are you coming on to me?

Rachel Hawkins

#41. He was unable to get it out of his mind. Was it really possible that he had spent the past thirty years worshipping the church rather than God? Because that, in essence, was the accusation Benitez had leveled against him.

Robert Harris

#42. This storm you talk of ... t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

James Hilton

#43. I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

Rachel Brady

#44. I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V ...

Gina Barreca

#45. The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

Vivian Campbell

#46. The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#47. The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.

Donald Luskin

#48. The lawn mower attends with defeaning shudder to the tonsure; a light odor of fresh hay intoxicates the air; the leveled grass finds again a bristling infancy; but the bite of the blades reveals unevenness, mangy clearings, yellow patches.

Italo Calvino

#49. Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#50. Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths. If

Will Durant

#51. Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

Ethan Hawke

#52. Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

Samuel Johnson

#53. Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

G. Willow Wilson

#54. (Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.)
Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#55. God can craft ten thousand tomorrows and shape a thousand dreams to fill every one of them. And He carries out this most ingenious 'crafting' and 'shaping' using the very cinders and ashes left by the fires that had originally destroyed our tomorrows and leveled our dreams.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#56. You like the girl," Alasdair offered.
Nassar leveled a heavy gaze at him.
"Lillian said you tried to be funny in the car. I told her it couldn't possibly be true. The moment you try to make a joke, the sky shall split and the Four Horsemen will ride out, heralding Apocalypse.

Ilona Andrews

#57. Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt, but I didn't mind.

Josh Waitzkin

#58. I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.

Marc Maron

#59. The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

Maria Bartiromo

#60. The purpose of American culture is to create a norm, Morris. That means extraordinary people must be leveled, and it happens to Jimmy. He ends up working in advertising, for God's sake, and what greater agent of the norm is there in this fucked - up country?

Stephen King

#61. I'm convinced I will be cleared of all these charges that were unfairly leveled against me.

Joseph Estrada

#62. 1908: A massive explosion over Tunguska, Siberia, leveled sixty to eighty million trees over 2,150 square kilometers. Blamed on an asteroid or comet, or Nikola Tesla's Coil. The Bermuda Triangle J

Catherine Coulter

#63. I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

R.A. Salvatore

#64. You can do it now. You can't say you've never dated, because you have. A lot of people, actually." Xander's gave her a mischievous grin. "You've leveled up, dearest. You're an expert on dating compared to Liv of six months ago.

Danika Stone

#65. I just want a life that's full of up-leveled joy. And I'm ready to meet a nice man! Put that out there, too.

Kim Coles

#66. You want to come in?" she asked softly.
He leveled his gaze at her. "You know what's likely going to happen if I go in there, right?"
She didn't blink. "Yeah. That's why I'm asking.

Paige Tyler

#67. Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

Anne Tyler

#68. Sometimes life is like a video game. When things get harder, and the obstacles get tougher, it just means you leveled up.

Lilah Pace

#69. God's acre was her garden-spot, she said;
She sat there often, of the Summer days,
Little and slim and sweet, among the dead,
Her hair a fable in the leveled rays.

Dorothy Parker

#70. There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

Roland Emmerich