We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.
I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.
Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.
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.
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
I main-evented a sold-out Budokan Arena show; I participated in the first-ever ladder match in NJPW, made the transition from junior to heavyweight, and earned a G1 win with a series full of performances that I'm personally very proud of.