Top 1200 Status Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

When one has retired from the ranks of American domestic political consulting, as I have, you are not really allowed to just quit. You become emeritus, of counsel, senior status, and God knows what.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal status, let alone citizenship.

The key thing I took from my upbringing is that people are just people. My parents never worried about status.

In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court.

The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.

I shy away from celebrity status because I don't want to be known as that guy. But I had a chance to partake in the events and the festivities of the Kentucky Derby, and that was a huge honor.

In no culture ever studied have women repeatedly preferred to mate with pear-shaped, low-status, tepid men possessing high-pitched, nasal voices.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.

For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

As the people at the sharp end of delivering the government's commitment to tackle climate change we know attaining zero carbon status has always involved a flexible approach.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

Limos are fine for prime ministers or presidents who need the security, but there's no need for CEOs or executives to have one as a status symbol.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

I don't want to take away deferred status from anyone who has it, but I also didn't want to send the message that it is OK to come here illegally.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where the wealth gap has widened.

There are certain things producers ask you to do, and when I was starting out, I said yes to everything. I was asked, for 'Quo Vadis,' to drive a chariot. I said, 'Oh yes. I'm licenced for all vehicles.' Two days later, I was sitting in this dustbin with two very aggressive horses. I didn't stay in it for long.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

That may be the ultimate definition of toughness inside the squared circle - having the will to overcome a serious injury to return to elite status as a main eventer.

I really can't imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the states should be able to deny the status of marriage to same-sex unions.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.