Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have a cosmetics line in Walgreens. It's exclusively at Walgreens. It's called Circa and it's basically prestige cosmetics that are at… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan,… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government. — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige,… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become. — John Ensign Copy Share Image
