Quotes About Status

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

El prestigio es uno de los bienes más baratos y fáciles de comprar.

You don't want to be poor and look poor, too,' they would say; and 'We've got our pride. Yes, we've got our pride.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below "miscellaneous cuttings.

Some say the favor of the Grand Steward is double-edged. They are wrong. It is all edge, and everybody knows it, and still all the courtiers spend their every waking moment clutching at it and bleeding.

Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.

Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.

We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.

The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.

said, "Those are cool. I have an idea." He brought me over to his desktop to explain. Together we looked at his buddy list on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). There was a little feature called Status. It was there so you could say that you were away from your desk or out to lunch, and so on, so people would know why you weren't responding to their messages.

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their

Booth Tarkington

Así, la condición económica y social influye sobre la vocación al matrimonio [...]

En las relaciones entre los sexos y en las bodas era donde más se ponía de manifiesto la conciencia de la jerarquía social.

Win. He was often described in the society pages as an "international playboy," and she guessed that fit. He was blue-blooded old money, very old money, the kind of old money that disembarked from the Mayflower and immediately called for a caddy and a tee time.

Myron's car climbed up past the nouveau riche mansions, so expansive they appeared to have been taking some sort of growth hormone.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.

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

Our culture is too obsessed with outward appearance, age and status. Love is what matters.

Like, you think, 'Oh, it's 'Star Wars,' everybody has a spaceship' - but no, actually, in the 'Star Wars' universe, having a ship is like having a yacht.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.