Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.
Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.
Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.
As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. Its a status that does exist.
Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.
There are centuries worth of conditioning telling us that the thing that gives women status or importance is beauty.
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.
I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.
No kind of clothes can decide either your marital status or whether you qualify as good wife/homemaker or not.
No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building.
My Twitter account status used to say 'part-time playboy' on it, but I've taken that down now.
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.
I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.
My favorite job is Petro Poroshenko. I am happy with the authority and high status this gives me!
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.
There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn't.
When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.
Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.
In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.
Facebook's new relationship status option: "No longer able to interact with actual people"
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.
The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.
Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.
Military veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our country carry a status we all should appreciate and honor.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.
Economic growth and 'future superpower' status is all very good but that doesn't guarantee dignity for every individual.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.
Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.
Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.
The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.
For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.
We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.
I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.
What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pretty nice crib.
No woman anywhere should be denied access to quality healthcare because of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.
The Five Eyes nations have a duty to support Hong Kong and its status as guaranteed by the 1984 agreement.
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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