Quotes About Prestige

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

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

Anybody spending $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts,' declared Eisenhower.

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

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.

Rich people like to hostess, so they can show off their nice stuff. Tonight

prestige, and possessions are the three things that prevent us from recognizing and receiving the reign of God. . . .

Very Important People, baby!

Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.

Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.

La gente cree que lo importante es tener éxito, ganar prestigio, conseguir poder, subir por la escala social, servir a la máquina, pero la persona queda estancada. En realidad, más que estancada, empeora ligeramente. Cumplidos los 25 años, ya no se perfeccionan, sino que degeneran, aunque mejoren en el arte de ganar dinero y manipular a los demás. (...) El arte de escuchar

despite the prestige, power, and wealth of pharaoh, he did not eat Arowana at lunch, and his wife did not swim by Louis Vuitton bikini in the Nile .

People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.

An award or an honour from the government is always welcomed any time.

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.

Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

Having the President of the United States in West Virginia is a tremendous honor.

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

People used to respect royalty to an insane extent that doesn't exist nowadays. These people never shouted. They never moved, really. Their effort was minimum. They were the most powerful people, but they were just calm.

Winning the Champions League is completely different to winning the Premier League.