For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. - Erma Bombeck Your divine sagacity is your life's status symbol. - Ogwo David Emenike My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. - Paul Getty I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books. - Alex Haley In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stai...

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. - Kareem Abduljabbar When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces. - King Abdullah Ii Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically. - Diane Ackerman It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo. - Gerry Adams Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. - Ronald Reagan I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it? - Sheldon Adelson remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against y...

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. - Marc Andreessen It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. - James S Coleman Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening. - Arthur Hertzberg Being happy is easy. Easy until you start believing that happiness is tied to a relationship, a job, your income, a product you buy, fame, a status, or any of a number of things that you don't currently have in your possession. Being happy is easy,...

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning. - Chinua Achebe The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country. - Bhumibol Adulyadej In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens ; and to modify his nature accordingly. - Robert Aickman There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights r...

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. - Alain De Botton I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. - Emile M Cioran The majority of women in Welmont with children Charlie's age never miss a soccer game and don't earn special good mother status for being there. This is simply what good mothers do. These same mothers herald it an exceptional event if any of the dads leave the office early to catch a game. The fathers cheering on the sidelines are upheld as great dads. Fathers who miss the games are working. Mothers who miss the games, like me, are bad mothers. - Lisa Genova If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue. - Virgil Goode The atmosphere at my schoo...

A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification. - Jaachynma N E Agu Yes, all you need do is to change your orientation and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that He can make you whole, change your status, and add value to your destiny. - Jaachynma N E Agu For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. - Kenneth Burke Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations. - Michael N Castle Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness.... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I came ac...

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. - Marc Andreessen Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be for life. You must go where your heart leads and never forget that love is the most precious gift of all. Money and social status are poor substitutes for a warm, tender embrace, and there is little in life more fulfilling than the joy of loving and knowledge that you are loved in return. - Julia Quinn For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. - Kenneth Burke Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's famil...

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless. - Tony Dungy I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. - Alfredo Stroessner I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business. - Lesley Visser