Quotes About Status

Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.

Everybody has to be somewhere!

From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.

The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.

If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.

Evelyn let Camilla, as the higher-status person, extend her had first, a Babsism she remembered.

The scene I was in. It was just so much. I don't think you realize. The money it took. The competition over the invitations. The parties....It sounds ridiculous, saying it out loud, because it's just parties, but it mattered to me. Then. It was a place. It seemed solid. I couldn't keep up.

Charlotte had enough money -- had always had enough money -- that she didn't have to worry about her behavior.

Companies were offering bribes to expand faster internationally, investors were scamming their clients, oil companies were funding warlords, manufacturers were skirting environmental regulations, all to make ever more money, yet no one from those groups were seemingly untouchable, protected by power and status and connections, and some were not.

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

His service to the family was honoured by a certain artificial equality of status.

But those activities were a front, as Brennan showed, for Hertz's real agenda: to obtain Permanent Status for the District: P.S., or even, in his wildest dreams, statehood.

The rich kept you waiting so that you could feel free to admire all that they had.

The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.

twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form

It's Officer, actually. Where are you

If you're not cop, you're little people.

He knew that first-class passengers were accorded special status that moved them quickly through security checks and first onto planes. Airport and airline staff and security were less likely to concern themselves with first-class travelers, even if they were a disheveled man with blood on his jacket and a thirteen-year-old girl who couldn't seem to keep tears off her cheeks.

This moment may come to us all, at some point in our eventutal move from health into sickness. We abandon our old obligation to consider the needs of others, and give ourselves up to their care. There is a shift in status. We become citizens of a new realm, and although we retain the best and worst of our former selves we are no longer bodily in command of our fates.

Whoever is the team leader of the team, I'm going to be going after him. And I'm not going to do it with my voice.' Because I had no voice. I had no status. I had to do it with the way that I played.

But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo.

After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir.