Not everyone gets a reservation in the hot restaurant. You must pay your dues. Like it or not there is a pecking… — Sonja Morgan Copy Share Image
“We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there’s a pecking order in that, don’t you?” — Lindsay J. Pryor Copy Share Image
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the… — Christian Horner Copy Share Image
Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is,… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor… — Dan Fagin Copy Share Image
“I know gold's a bit gauche, but I wanted to ensure you grasp my new position atop the pecking order. And for… — Frieza Copy Share Image
I have no qualms about doing a character who may be below the lead in the pecking order, whether it's a hero… — Tovino Thomas Copy Share Image
“Once you gave up the nervous craving to promote yourself, denigrate others, draw attention to your unique and special qualities, and ensure… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
There was definitely a pecking order, and when Stallone walked in, we were like, "All hail!" He came in with his big… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
“The soldier was like that. He was an expert in getting other people to do what he wanted. The only creature that… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Most people measure themselves against someone or something and then fight their inner doubts to believe they, too, have what it takes… — Stephan Bauman Copy Share Image
“In fact, we owe the expression “pecking order” to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe,… — Jennifer Ackerman Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“To act on this fear—a fear of being evaluated then dismissed by others—was to forgo a friendship that actually had some possibilities.… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Here’s what turns a successful hierarchy into one that impedes progress: when too many people begin, subconsciously, to equate their own value… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“I don’t run for trains.” Snub your destiny. I have taught myself to resist running to keep on schedule. This may seem… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Yaya was much better than Sergio Busquets at Barcelona. But he was behind him in the pecking order and he found that… — Kolo Toure Copy Share Image
As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in… — Bob Sutton Copy Share Image
“See, we're intellectual equals. I am as smart as your mother, and she is as smart as me. This is a problem.… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
I moved around a lot as a kid, and was always the new kid in town. I was always having to confront… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
“And there’s your pecking order of unhappiness, right there in a nutshell. Of all the overwhelming compulsions you can be ruined by,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
“Mild-mannered Abe, however, is Tarzan of the traffic jungle. He knows the strict species pecking order: pedestrians are on the bottom and… — Sarah Macdonald Copy Share Image
Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It… — Al Gini Copy Share Image
“...generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“To identify and isolate his perceived political enemies, Kim Il Sung created a neofeudal, blood-based pecking order in 1957. The government classified… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“Gabe leaned down, whispered in her ear. "The U.S. Marshal Service is at the top of the law-enforcement pecking order, outranking everyone,… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
“This, no doubt, was the call 33 had heard. Bored with his balanced diet of maize and maple peas, tired of the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and… — Ron White Copy Share Image
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image