Levels Quotes - Page 36

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.

The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.

I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment.

Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state of pure potential of infinite possibility.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.