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There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life. -- Sophia Amoruso
Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders. -- David Moody
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. -- Terry Pratchett
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. -- Rumi
The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go. -- Jerry Hall
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. -- Zig Ziglar
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. -- Ayn Rand
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. -- Mercedes McCambridge
One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers. -- Michael Andretti
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. -- Saint Augustine
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats. -- Andrew Bogut
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. -- Ed Markey
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. -- William Faulkner
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. -- Fatboy Slim
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. -- Stephen Covey
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. -- Robert Mugabe
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed. -- Nancy Pelosi
I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. -- Hugh Jackman
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. -- Thomas Perez
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. -- P. G. Wodehouse
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails. -- Jack Nicholson
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. -- Thomas Huxley
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. -- George Eliot
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. -- Carl Jung
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. -- Herbert Hoover
I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. -- George Woodcock
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. -- Hedy Lamarr
A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. -- Rachel Maddow
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. -- Emil Zatopek
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. -- Anthony Trollope
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. -- William Greider
President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage. -- Thomas Perez
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard. -- Mariel Hemingway
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer. -- Philippe Petit
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. -- Donny Osmond
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. -- Ezra Taft Benson
So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude. -- W. Clement Stone
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. -- John Piper
Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy. -- Matt Hardy
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness -- Catherynne M. Valente
Books"?they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. -- John Green
You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders. -- Bill Richardson
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. -- Fatboy Slim
Courage promotes leaders; fear demotes them. Most people who have difficulties climbing up success ladders are fans of fear. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders. -- Dwayne Johnson
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. -- E. M. Forster
Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. -- William Butler Yeats
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it. -- B. Barmanbek
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders. -- Joseph Joubert
Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape. -- Hilda Doolittle
I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe. -- Anne Sexton
If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic. -- Jose Parla
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything. -- Lauren Groff
That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy. -- Michelle Franklin
New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." -- Robert Hass
Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise. -- Andrew Carnegie
As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream. -- Judith Hanson Lasater

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