Pedestal Quotes

“Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off.”

“Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.”

“If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.”

“Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal because they put you up there.”

“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty.”

“We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.”

“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. ”

“...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...”

“If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.”