Status 2 Line Quotes

#1. Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

David Rolf

#2. I was just about to get up when Dad rushed into the kitchen. He was in pajamas, which was totally bizarre. Dad never came down to breakfast until he was completely dressed. Of course, his pajamas even had a little pocket and handkerchief, so maybe he felt dressed.

Rachel Hawkins

#3. Neil had been doing one stupid thing after another all year long and this has turned into one of the best years of his life.

Nora Sakavic

#4. Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

David Hume

#5. There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

John F. Kennedy

#6. Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#7. Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Samuel Johnson

#8. It is our job to ruin the perfection of the empty page. It is our job to disrupt the status quo: because that's what storytelling us. Taking a straight line and bending it, breaking it, shaping it into something far stranger and far greater.

Chuck Wendig

#9. Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.

Gary Hirshberg

#10. As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

Alan Green

#11. It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

Marge Piercy

#12. The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

David Roberts

#13. So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

Pat Summerall

#14. Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

Arthur Hertzberg

#15. Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. Everyone who ever did anything revolutionary was just an eighteen-year-old kid once. George Washington, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela ... Social status is just a social construct, the primary function of which is to keep regular people oppressed and rebels in line.

Matthew Quick

#17. One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status.

Julian Barnes

#18. What is this place? Heaven? <> Ha. <> You're supposed to say, It's Iowa.

Rainbow Rowell