Quotes About High Status

#1. In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.

Jami Attenberg

#2. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

#3. High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Keith Henson

#4. As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Alain De Botton

#5. It's easier to accumulate wealth if you don't live in a high-status neighborhood.

Thomas J. Stanley

#6. And ultimately, that's what women want, a strong, independent, high status male - a "doesn't take shit from anybody" bad boy - but they want this bad boy to have a depth and a sensitivity that they only open up and show when they're around her.

Mark Manson

#7. A high status male will make strong, powerful eye contact when he's talking to a girl, but he will make less eye contact when she's talking to him. This will make her work harder to gain his attention and win his approval. That's called the 90/60 Rule.

Robert Moore

#8. The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Alain De Botton

#9. It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.

Sue Grafton

#10. I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

Hrithik Roshan

#11. I think one of the prophets stuttered when he dictated your specs," Jal said, snickering. "Or the gene-splicer was daydreaming about his high-status trueborn love and he botched your programming.

Karen Sandler

#12. Hunter-gatherer women are therefore not normally treated badly, and many ethnographers have concluded that, in comparison to most societies, married women lead lives of high status and considerable autonomy.

Richard W. Wrangham

#13. While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'

Neil MacGregor

#14. Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Jonathan Kellerman

#15. A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.

Lame Deer

#16. New York state grape scientists go so far as to say that 'the site characteristics of rain fall, soil nutrients, organic matter, high lime, soil texture and pH are minor compared with soil depth, temperature and replant status.

Jeff Cox

#17. We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Augusto Boal

#18. Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

Agesilaus II

#19. It's worth it, worth giving up the sun and the magic.

Richelle Mead

#20. Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

Gary Locke

#21. Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.

Joseph Henry Shorthouse

#23. 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

#24. I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Anne Lamott

#25. We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

Anthony Liccione

#26. As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Samuel Johnson

#27. Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result of the sectarian violence from 2005-2007, women retreated to their homes and fell from public view.

Richard Engel

#28. Sometimes, proceeding in the dark and aiming an arrow at the elusive, mythical dragon trumps all the rational arguments for not proceeding. Sometimes, the stakes are so high and the status quo is so unacceptable that taking aim in any direction is better than not shooting at all.

Rebecca J. Anderson

#29. As fate would have it, Jay's status appears
To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye
When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.

Jay-Z

#30. Al's voice was faint but resolute. "Stand up. Try to look sexy."
"In a bedsheet?" I complained, running my hands down it. "How can I look sexy in a bedsheet?" He cleared his throat, and I grimaced. "Never mind.

Kim Harrison

#31. Fred nodded and said, "So what you're saying is, if we all die, that's not even the worst-case scenario."
John replied, "I'd still like to shoot a little higher than that, Freddy.

David Wong

#32. Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

Peter York

#33. High heels can literally raise your
status because you're taller when you wear them.

Helen Fisher

#34. Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Elmer Rice

#35. Whenever we see anyone in a high or low position, male or female, they differ only in appearance, dress, behavior, and status. In essence they are all equal
they all experience problems in their lives.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#36. To be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Corra May Harris

#37. I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.

Kendrick Lamar

#38. In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.

Matt Ridley