Levellers Quotes

#1. Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,
whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,
is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#2. Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS.

Angela Carter

#4. I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

Ben Stein

#5. I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

Dree Hemingway

#6. It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!

Bruce Wilkinson

#7. One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

David Plotz

#8. Actually, all paths lead away from the truth ... how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?

Adyashanti

#9. Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

Mark Jenkins