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.

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.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

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.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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.

If whiteness is an illusion, on what else can a poor man without prospects pride himself?

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.