Levels Quotes - Page 73

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid. After all, they knew that their understanding of acids was at a fairly primitive level, and what they wanted to do was understand something about the world better - the nature of acidity - not something about their own concepts.

Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.