The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war.… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over.… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn't necessarily mean that they do… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, this school and its contemporaries were nothing more than cheap merchants of social status, selling an inflated sense of… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and… — Mia Love Copy Share Image
“reforms to Christmas behaviors were in part driven by fear of class conflict and a desire to tame customs that, despite their… — Gerry Bowler Copy Share Image
“Life is full of issues no matter what social status you enjoy in society, only the nature of issue would be different.… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image
“Power—To gain social status and prestige Purpose—To have meaning and direction in my life Romance—To have intense, exciting love in my life… — Todd Kashdan Copy Share Image
“What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth.… — Harold Ickes Copy Share Image
“It is a wonderful quirk of our species that the incentives of social life don’t reward strictly ruthless behavior. Leaders who are… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“Not that Amanda cared a whit about making the “proper” marriage. Personally, she wasn’t interested in marriage at all. At least not… — Tracie Peterson Copy Share Image
“When God brought the first man his spouse, he brought him not just a lover but the friend his heart had been… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In an odd way you can compare the social enviroment of any online game to that of a skate park or to… — Phil Janelle Copy Share Image
“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Readers acquainted with the recent literature on human sexuality will be familiar with what we call the standard narrative of human sexual… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
It is very important for both the parents to spend quality time with their children, at least till they are eight years… — Suriya Copy Share Image
“She did not want to be a cliché or hackneyed example of an inner-city girl. She wanted to battle against the forces… — Colleen Smith-Dennis Copy Share Image
“If one adopts an attitude that constantly sees life as a gift, then naturally a feeling of thanksgiving emerges out of oneself,… — Ryōjun Shionuma Copy Share Image
Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
“The feminist challenge was sweeping: it embraced education and occupation, together with legal, political, and social status. It even dared broach the… — Cynthia Russett Copy Share Image
“People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the… — Edward M. Hallowell Copy Share Image
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
I try not to let the material aspects of different cultures distract me from getting to the essence of the person I'm… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
“7. The principle of reciprocal altruism—I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine”—is universal; people do not by nature give generously unless… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“My spiritual teacher describes a person with a big ego as “a feather pretending to be an arrow.” Intuitively, this rings so… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
