A Levels Quotes

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. ~ Terry Pratchett

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. ~ Amanda Burton

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University. ~ Jeremy Irons

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs. ~ Romola Garai

I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels. ~ Chris Toumazou

OUr teachers at LT&C had their A levels and the odd teaching certificate. It is astonishing how a black crepe robe worn over a coat or blouse gives a Cockney punter or a Covent Garden flower girl the gravitas of an Oxford don. Accent be damned in Africa, as long as it's foreign and you have the right skin colour. ~ Abraham Verghese

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you. ~ Kate Reardon

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels. ~ Hayley Mills

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad! ~ Russell Howard

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot ... But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart ~ Ben Mitchell

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it. ~ Colin Baker

My interest in food really began with a month's cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew. ~ Pippa Middleton

I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion." ~ Tom Hardy

I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will go to university, because I really want to see what happens with the acting. ~ Georgia Groome

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead. ~ Michael Jackson

Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level. ~ Thomas G. Stemberg

It's interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them. ~ Judah Smith

God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power. ~ Marianne Williamson

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, ~ James MacGregor Burns

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment. ~ Les Brown

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training. ~ Barrett Tillman

I've won at every level, except college and pro. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt. ~ Kevin McCarthy

Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above - not where you want to be. ~ Scott Jurek

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him. ~ John Green

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood. ~ Aisha Tyler

Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful. ~ Bernie Sanders

People, like water, seek their own level. ~ Ann Landers

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process. ~ Maya Angelou

The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. ~ Olivia Newton-John

Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste. ~ Jim Butcher

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level. ~ Marcy Kaptur

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. ~ Bobby Scott

Perhaps nuns felt like this, she thought, when they passed within convent walls and left the glitter of the world behind. But their renunciation was of the will, while circumstances beyond her control had stripped her of the people who meant everything to her. And yet was it not possible that they had endured the same impoverishment, so that when the glory that was life had become husks they found it good to exchange those dead things for service and whatever vicarious happiness could be salvaged? Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level. ~ Margaret Landon

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. ~ Ernest Becker

To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. ~ Eric Thomas

Most people have extremely high tolerance levels for intolerance. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels. ~ Immanuel Wallerstein

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. ~ Allen Ginsberg

"Teachers" ... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment. ~ James MacGregor Burns

Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Our ability to protect our families is at stake. ~ Joan Blades

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done. ~ Wendy Davis

The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance. ~ Claude Mandil

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels. ~ Rand Paul

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level. ~ Drake

Racism has taken over America; discrimination and misogyny are the law. The clash between our better and darker instincts slams home.
It is the year 2037. What is now referred to as "The Great Madness of '16" has set loose moral, economic, and cultural devastation. In the once powerful United States, paranoia and hatred rage at epidemic levels.
Behind "The Great Barrier Walls", Red State citizens suffer near-slavery and dire hunger at the hands of totalitarian leaders calling themselves the PolitiChurch. Family Values Patrols work the streets, raping, maiming, and murdering in the name of Righteousness. Children are corralled and forced to work for the state.
The world is tearing itself apart. Between those who choose to hate, in an us-against-them world; and those who find healing through helping those in need.
Oppressive governments and bullying leaders crush their followers into mindless subservience, herding them like cattle, whipping up fear and hatred against outsiders.
As one side surges into ever more disturbing and twisted violence, some counterforce leading toward caring and truth seems to be awakening in others.
In this war there can be no compromise.
Had ancients predicted these times? Must mankind destroy itself? Is there no hope?
Or is there something we're not seeing?
- Back cover description of "The Soul Hides in Shadows ~ Edward Fahey

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect. ~ Pat Gillick

But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can see which level of openness other societies enjoy. We are no different - we too want more freedom. The question is: How much freedom will be allowed? ~ Zhang Xin

More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level. ~ George Steiner

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. ~ Robert Bork

For disease prevention, berries of all colors have "emerged as champions," according to the head of the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory.39 The purported anticancer properties of berry compounds have been attributed to their apparent ability to counteract, reduce, and repair damage resulting from oxidative stress and inflammation.40 But it wasn't known until recently that berries may also boost your levels of natural killer cells. ~ Michael Greger

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired. ~ Terence McKenna

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic. ~ Anson Mount

What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it? ~ Nayantara Sahgal

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. ~ Paul Dickson

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health. ~ Howard Berman

Touch speaks to us on levels, so much deeper than the intellect can comprehend, going to the root of us, to levels of comprehension we can't ignore. ~ Elliot Mabeuse