Best 2211 quotes in «levels quotes» category

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

The Goldstone Report establishes the credibility of the accusations directed at Israel with respect to its tactics used during the 2008 - 09 attacks on Gaza, but was not able to facilitate the next step that would have involved activating accountability mechanisms either within Israel or at the level of international society.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning.

The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level asymmetric attacks against their facilities or their interests.

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

The higher one’s level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

The higher the levels, the higher the devils.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

The Host' is very much in the same vein as 'Twilight', and there's clearly a huge fan base out there. But I can't imagine myself being as huge as Robert Pattinson. I'm not sure I could handle that level of fame.

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?).

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

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

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.

The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.

The jealousy I feel twards Orlando Bloom exists on many levels.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

The level of dishonesty is out of control.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.

The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.