Quotes About Status

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don't understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.

The more ties you wear, the higher rank you are.

I would say the big cat people see tigers as sort of a status symbol, as you would a Ferrari or fancy car collection. They have the animals to elevate their position. It makes them special.

When someone said, 'Let's go to a club' in New York, it often meant heels and tight dresses and money.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

People often attain and hold power within an organization by downplaying their qualifications. "We gain status more readily, and more reliably, by acting just a little less deserving than we actually are.

The captains in Tier One were not poseurs. They didn't make speeches, didn't seek attention or acclaim, and were not comfortable wearing the cloak of power. Most of them took subservient roles and carried water for their teammates. In other words, they behaved precisely the way Gruenfeld describes. They won status by doing everything in their power to suggest they didn't deserve it.

Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.

My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

The term casado then, even when applied to Asian inhabitants of the Estado, obviously preserved a sense in which it indicated a claim to bourgeois status, and in this manner was also a precursor to the category of burgher that the Dutch were to employ in Sri Lanka.

Le sobraba la plata para ser un vago y no le alcanzaba para ser respetable.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.