Quotes About Status

Have I placed more value on my status or title than on my character? What perceptions do I have about myself, other people, and the world? Are they aligned with my purpose? Do they reflect the values I claim to have? What is my true nature, apart from my reputation? What values will I refuse to deny because, to do so, I would violate my ideals and ethics?

Francis Cook, considered in 1869 one of the three richest men in England. Tennie

To embrace the ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the struggle to be God (and with it the inevitable despair at our constant failure), and to enjoy our status as creatures: image-bearing creatures, but creatures nonetheless.

Sin" is not just "doing things God has forbidden." It is, as we saw, the failure to be fully functioning, God-reflecting human beings. That is what Paul sums up in 3:23: all sinned and fell short of God's glory. He is referring to the glory that, as true humans, they should have possessed. This is the "glory" spoken of in Psalm 8: the status and responsibility of looking after God's world on his behalf.

One central biblical term to refer both to the divine covenant faithfulness and to the status of the covenant member is tsedaqah, in Greek dikaiosyn?, regularly (if potentially misleadingly) translated into English as "righteousness" or "justice.

How's Her Royal Bitchiness?" "Alive." "Pity.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

the psychoanalytic notion that going down on a man is symbolically similar to breastfeeding; that it is a regressive form of sexuality. (..) the notion that a woman who likes to perform fellatio is "really" in search of maternal succor (..). Perhaps a Freudian case might be made for the unconscious wish on some women's part to drink a man's semen in order to take into themselves the status the male is given in our society.

We see how inherited wealth grants status without any guarantee of merit or talent.

Class status was still based on family name in Pennsylvania, for the top tier was dominated by the Penn, Pemberton, and Logan families—the proprietors and Quaker elites.

We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.

Thread and cloth were ordinary – worse than ordinary; they were women's affairs. But letters! Letters were for lords and kings. And something in me blazed fiery jealous and joyous at the thought: Why ever should they have what I did not?

We want new clothing, more clothing, pretty clothing, because rather than looking at clothing as something to cover the shame of our nakedness, we view it as a sign of status, a source of happiness, or a way to compete or show off.

Meetings were for wasting time, created by and for high-tone people to justify their existence.

All celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view

in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools

In this life, we are either kings or pawns, Emperors or fools

All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.