Top 1200 Class Status Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

Remember 'The Brady Bunch' TV show? That 1970s family had a full-time live-in housekeeper called Alice. Mrs. Brady worked at the PTA and did community work. She didn't clean her own house. That was middle class. Now you have to be very rich to employ a housekeeper. Everything it meant to be middle class has changed dramatically.

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.

There are centuries worth of conditioning telling us that the thing that gives women status or importance is beauty.

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

For me there is no reason why to go up in weight class, because when you go up in weight class you have to fight bigger guys - then you have to train against bigger guys. The guys are not better, they're heavier, but it means you have more chance to get hurt.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

Economic growth and 'future superpower' status is all very good but that doesn't guarantee dignity for every individual.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.

Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.

Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes - human-being woes.

I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.

The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

Military veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our country carry a status we all should appreciate and honor.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It doesn't work because the liberal class failed us. The liberal class failed to find the intellectual and moral fortitude to defend liberal values at a time that they were under egregious assault.

When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.

What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pretty nice crib.

It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that. That's an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.

Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type really fast to get the lesson done quick because the teacher had a little acoustic guitar, and there was a girl I had a crush on in the class. I would take the guitar and pretend to be some great singer-songwriter, serenade her with joke songs.

The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends. I have routines for both.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.