Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
For American philo-Semites, the Jewish experience wasn't just one minority experience among many, but a signal and elevated case.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.
In general, I feel like when I've associated with someone, the association has elevated me and perhaps lowered the other person.
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.
I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
The Cure is clearly above average but seemingly unable to rally itself to move to a higher plateau.
Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they're in is one of entitlement. And that starts young. By the time they're in college, they've had it a lot of their life.
Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
