Quotes About Status

It is easy for us to accept that the division of people into 'superiors' and 'commoners' is a figment of the imagination. Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth.

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

Se g?sesc oameni în sat care, la opt guri, au o singur? lingur?. ?i-o trec din mîn? în mîn?. Noi, se cheam? c? sîntem oameni cu stare. Avem patru-cinci linguri în cas?...

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.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

that forgoing recognition of status was a luxury of the recognized.

Gemma murmured. Even if she could afford Stella's

We need to be reminded that our value as human beings is something bestowed on us by God regardless of our marital status.

Sure we're in limos. We're stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?

And why do most of us want marriage? Crave it for status or for stability that is an illusion. Marriage can't protect you from heartbreak or the random cruelties and unfairnesses life deals out. It's

They drive an Avis Grey Lady, a car that costs the same as a modest house.

A man from Mumbai asks you. "Do you know who I am?" A man from Delhi asks you. "Do you know who my father is?"

You might be a Desi, if you join extension school of Ivy League for a part-time certificate program so that your LinkedIn profile shows the Ivy League stamp.

Whites do not realize that possessing unchecked power and control over others often results in the dimming of their own perceptiveness and leads to a distorted reality. This is because their high status and power means they (a) seldom have to worry or even think about people of color, (b) use only one another to validate their sense of a false racial reality, and (c) inaccurately define people of color from a stereotypical template.

Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.

Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you're made.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Americans] know instinctively that when they see lines of Americans whose travel plans have been screwed up because they can't get a U.S. passport to travel to Mexico or Canada, when they realize 3 of the Fort Dix plotters were not only illegal aliens but were stopped 75 times (!!!) by various police authorities and never once had their status questioned, the very notion that a Washingtonized-immigration bill is going to "solve the problem" of immigration is hilarious nonsense.