Leveling Down Quotes

#1. We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Aristotle.

#2. When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. You want him to become a robot.

Ayn Rand

#3. I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

James Brown

#4. From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Harvey Cushing

#6. An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

Carl Sandburg

#7. Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.
She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.
Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?

Dylan Thomas

#8. Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

Mark Strand

#9. You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.

Michelle Hodkin

#10. I want a love that don't mean a thing.

Elton John

#11. What a blessing, what a treasured friend that despair turned out to be. It continually crushed my ongoing attempts at manufacturing optimism, slowing me down, leveling me so I could return to love and begin again and again.

Lori Cash Richards

#12. You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Muhammad Ali

#13. The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

James F. Cooper

#14. Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

#15. I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Rory Stewart