Level Quotes - page 16

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional. (Billy Joe Saunders)
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes. View quote
Billy West
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive. View quote
Birch Bayh
Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years. View quote
Bjorn Lomborg
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level. View quote
Bob Beauprez
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. View quote
Bobby Scott
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game. View quote
Bobby Thomson
I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective. View quote
Bonnie Raitt
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. View quote
Brendan Gill
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity. View quote
Brendon Burchard
I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe. (Brian Schmidt)
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human. View quote
Bruce Greenwood
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem. View quote
Burke Marshall
Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level. View quote
Benmont Tench
But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. View quote
Charles Bass
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids. View quote
Chely Wright
I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them. View quote
Chester Brown
I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try. View quote
Chill Wills
I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive. (Christine Ebersole)
I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs. View quote
Christopher Dodd
De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself. View quote
Christopher Meloni
You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity. View quote
Connie Chung
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. View quote
Constance Baker Motley