Status Quotes
1261 Status quotes by 934 unique authors
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to…
— Mitch Albom
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A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that…
— Michel Foucault
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Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
— Ted Dekker
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I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in…
— Ann Coulter
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How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a…
— Richelle Mead
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And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world…
— Joss Whedon
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Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If…
— Ayn Rand
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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…
— Alex Haley
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Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation…
— Orson Scott Card
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The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them,…
— Galileo Galilei
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She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so…
— Jonathan Franzen
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These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion --…
— Johnny Cash
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a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just…
— Shulamith Firestone
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. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even…
— Candace Bushnell
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Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the…
— Jacques Ellul
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Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking…
— Charlie Brooker
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All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
— C.S. Lewis
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Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.
— Craig Ferguson
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We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that…
— Donald Miller
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If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I…
— James Finn Garner
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