Leveled Quotations

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down toward the trees, expecting that the next day the crash will come. You brace yourself for the impact, only to find that things have leveled out at treetop height, and you climb and enjoy the remainder of the flight.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

What we basically had last year was an anomaly. We had a spike (in revenue), then it leveled off.

When he kicked in that door and leveled that gun, Joe Sutton had the right to defend himself.

We were certainly poised to take advantage of other teams' inability, if you will, to act quickly in free agency. And now obviously the field's been leveled quite a bit. We're disappointed solely from a football operations standpoint that we weren't able to jump out there and take advantage of some players and opportunities that might have come about because of teams having to clear cap space.

When we started school again, our enrollment numbers were way down, but five months after the storm, our enrollment has leveled out some. That includes students coming into our district who had to relocate from other areas.

Poker has leveled out, but new players are gradually coming in; just not as fast. We've developed two kinds of players - those who like the cash tables, and tournament players. It's two different styles of play.

I'd call it flat. This comes after pretty steady growth after 2000. So it's probably not surprising that we've leveled off a bit.

Certainly, in the same way the Web has leveled the playing field for businesses of all sizes to compete, search has taken that one step further. It allows Mom and Pops to get that much closer to shoppers they wouldn't ordinarily come into contact with.

I don't think I've had a team that never leveled off.

He was climbing a little early, but Victor said he then leveled off nice. There just wasn't any pace in the race.

I would say it has leveled off. The bad news is we haven't found a way to lose weight.

It is gone. It is literally leveled in places. The power of the surge in this storm was greatly underestimated.

I think we showed the parity in college basketball. There are a lot of great teams out there. It's leveled the playing field a little bit more. Hopefully, it will help some other schools who might not have gotten a chance to make the tournament otherwise.

Our commitment is to remain an elite team. No question the playing field has been leveled (with the new collective bargaining agreement). We will do more research and development. We will add to our scouting staff.

Living wage ordinances in other cities and counties have not led to higher contract costs and have instead leveled the playing field in the bidding process.

The allegations that the United States has leveled against Iran are not new, ... This Week.

Michael and I agreed that expanding the team would best serve his interests as we work toward his acquittal on the false charges that have been leveled against him.

We really need more volunteers. We had a bunch of people sign up right after 9-11. Since then, the numbers have leveled off and people are hard to find. The biggest problem we have is when we get people trained to have them willing to help when called upon.

We had a lot of energy to start the game, but then we just leveled off. We fought all the way to the end, but just couldn't get the win.

Transportation projects are traditionally not funded through the General Fund but rather through the Transportation Trust Fund. However, the gasoline tax has leveled out somewhat because cars have become more fuel efficient.

When a threat of such a nature is leveled against anyone, especially on state property, you should expect the state police to come investigate.

This year boat sales are much better. Last year, they were saying gasoline would be $5 a gallon by summer. It's leveled out around $2 in this area and a lot of people have now adjusted to that. We're seeing more young couples with kids who are interested in buying.

We tend to see the number of bias incidents go in cycles in large part tied to international events. It has leveled off since 9/11, but unfortunately at a higher level than prior to 9/11.

There have been continuing, almost daily, allegations leveled against the university with regard to our football program, ... These give us very grave concerns.

An expulsion is leveled in a situation where the matter is so horrendous that the partnership is not there and cannot be there.

There's plenty of cement worldwide, but in the U.S., cement production capacity has leveled off and no one is building more plants.

The security situation has significantly leveled off and the AFP (the Armed Forces of the Philippines) leadership now believes that they could downgrade the alert level from red to blue.

The mutual fund industry doesn't even know the Internet exists. I've always been aware how isolated and disempowered the average investor has been. The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.

This ad simply lays out the facts about the corruption allegations against DeLay that go way beyond the campaign finance charges he is facing in court. Rep. DeLay cannot intimidate stations to prevent public discussion of the serious charges leveled against him.

This lawsuit is obviously calculated to damage the reputations of some of the finest people I know. That they would shop this story to the media and file suit on the morning of our first football game tells you what their true motives are. The charges leveled against me and my staff are completely false.

It looks like the exodus has leveled off.

The biggest difference this year is no Ernie Els. That has leveled the playing field a bit and it is much more open.

It was a big deal. There was a lot of criticism leveled her way, and she handled it like the outstanding person she was and is to this day.

It's time the president leveled with the American people, because no foreign policy can be sustained without the informed consent of the American people, ... They have not been informed of that fact.

It took hundreds of years for these woods to grow, and they leveled it in a week. It's gone. After they build new houses here, they'll have to widen the roads and put up gas stations, and pretty soon the whole area will just be a big strip. Eventually there won't be a nice spot left anywhere. I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

They checked to see how much it would cost to get it razed and leveled off again, and they said no. I was willing to lease it to them for $1 a year for as long as they wanted, but they didn't want to do that and put money into it.

They are very bad neighbors, ... They turned our lives into nightmares. They occupied the land, leveled our farms, demolished our houses, killed our beloved and spared no effort to attack us.

In case there is any doubt, the good old days for Sun are gone -- Sun no longer writes the rules and the competitive landscape has been leveled with IBM's Regatta about to set sail,

I hope and believe, less than a week from now, things will have leveled off, and we will know what to expect in terms of oil production, ... My understanding is the pipelines are back in partial production already, and that should only improve.

Home video gave us a cushion that made it easier to grow. Now that it has leveled off, we don't have the cushion. It's very hard to grow profitability when you are at capacity.

Gary may have had nothing to do with this, I don't know, ... But my concern and my criticism is leveled at my colleague and friend because of the way he's conducted himself, for handling himself subsequent to this young lady's disappearance. He could have been more forthcoming, could have been more truthful and could have been more candid.

I feel like people think that we're really, really smart. Yes, we're smart, but we skipped school because we're smart. It leveled the playing field.

And options like flexible work schedules and telecommuting have leveled off because they are not suited to certain jobs. However, programs aimed at achieving work-life balance are bound to gain momentum for men as well as women.

The letter contains no factual information regarding the allegations leveled against me.