Quotes about Status
He found identity and status in the possession of things. Liam was quiet, thoughtful, slow to speak, and always gave away more than he took in.
- Charles Martin
If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as "manly," men would be found to be suffering as much as women. They would be found to be suffering for the same reason: they are in exile from the communion of men and women, which is their deepest connection with the communion of all creatures.
- Wendell Berry
Golf is typical capitalist lunacy
- George Bernard Shaw
I'm one of the undeserving poor.
- George Bernard Shaw
Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.
- Tucker Max
I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.
- John Mayer
Fortunate, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.
- Napoleon Hill
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
- George Bernard Shaw
The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status — that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me.
- Toni Morrison
If whiteness is an illusion, on what else can a poor man without prospects pride himself?
- Toni Morrison
Here is the central paradox: the pastor is a public figure who must make himself nothing, who must speak not to attract attention to himself but rather to point away from himself—unlike most contemporary celebrities. The pastor must make truth claims to win people not to his own way of thinking but to God's way. The pastor must succeed, not by increasing his own social status but, if need be, by decreasing it.
- Kevin Vanhoozer
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
- Aristotle