Status Of Quotes

#1. I have waited a very long time to be able to have inappropriately timed discussions about the status of our relationship with you. I don't intend to let my own stupidity take this opportunity away from me.

Seanan McGuire

#2. Women were more than the status of their hymen or their dress size.

Penny Reid

#3. That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

#4. This is a book about getting naked - not physically, but spiritually. It's about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion - the Sunday-dress version people often call "organized religion." And it's about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.

Brian D. McLaren

#5. The ego is constantly comparing itself to others. It has us measuring our self-worth against the looks, wealth, and social status of everyone else. Did this not explain some of my worrying at work?

Dan Harris

#6. The legal status of something does not alter its moral status, nor does it change our responsibility to the truth.

John Stonestreet

#7. China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

Sellapan Ramanathan

#8. A man's mind is elevated to the status of the women he associates with.

Professor Griff

#9. When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone.

Peter Higgs

#10. I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance.

Sophie Turner

#11. Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Julian Baggini

#12. Capitalism, it turns out, can achieve what charity and good intentions sometimes cannot. Microfinance has done more to bolster the status of women, and to protect them from abuse, than any laws could accomplish.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#13. No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor, and instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies, and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.

Chiang Kai-shek

#15. When the gospel has been eclipsed (whether by repression, false religion secularism, humanistic philosophy, or spiritual decay within the church), the status of women has declined accordingly.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#16. What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

Camille Paglia

#17. He leapfrogged from the status of despised Galilean

R.C. Sproul

#18. The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

Craig Owens

#19. What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?

Colson Whitehead

#20. Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

Emily James Smith Putnam

#21. Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.

Stephen Jay Gould

#22. I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

H.P. Lovecraft

#23. Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.

Bill Shankly

#24. This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

Donald Johanson

#25. Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#26. The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#27. The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it.

Pedro Pierluisi

#28. There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Julie Bishop

#29. As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

John Shelby Spong

#30. Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world

Perry Groves

#31. Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#32. In modern times, making family meals happen is hard, but family meals are a better predictor of a child's overall healthy eating, happiness, and success than the socioeconomic status of the parents or extra-curricular activities.8,9

Katja Rowell

#33. Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

Mary Church Terrell

#34. These children spend so much time demanding the status of adulthood from you - even when it isn't in your power to bestow it - and then when the real shit hits the fan, when you need them to be adults, suddenly they're children again.

Zadie Smith

#35. Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.

Chuck Todd

#36. There is no reason to believe that a definition necessarily determines the ontological status of the term defined.)

Karl Popper

#37. Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:

Ken Keyes Jr.

#38. He wasn't good or evil or cruel or extreme in any way but one, which was that he had elevated grayness to the status of a fine art and cultivated a mind that was as bleak and pitiless and logical as the slopes of Hell.

Terry Pratchett

#39. From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia

Paulo Freire

#40. The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

Claude C. Hopkins

#41. Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#42. Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.

Thomas Sankara

#43. Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#44. I believe that raising the status of women in Turkey is a responsibility shared by everyone. It is not only in Turkey; we are still in need of serious support for the role of women in business and society all around the world.

Guler Sabanci

#45. I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

James Caan

#46. My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

Orlan

#47. Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.

George F. R. Ellis

#48. You want to believe that those who work hard and sacrifice get ahead and those who are lazy and cheat do not. This, of course, is not always true. Success is often greatly influenced by when you were born, where you grew up, the socioeconomic status of your family, and random chance

David McRaney

#49. Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Frank Herbert

#50. Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.

Ralph Lauren

#51. After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

Stephen Harper

#52. The status of philosophy is such that it is not the case that you cannot be wrong in philosophy but that it is very difficult to be right. (p.12)

Peter Worley

#53. The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

Scott Adams

#54. It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him.

Kate Elliott

#55. I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it's easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times.

Alex Newell

#56. The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.

Terence McKenna

#57. I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.

Mitt Romney

#58. I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh.

Orlan

#59. The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

Peter Straub

#60. NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

Jenny Shipley

#61. If Black people had simply accepted a status of economic and political inferiority, the mob murders would probably have subsided. But because vast numbers of ex-slaves refused to discard their dreams of progress, more than ten thousand lynchings occurred during the three decades following the war.

Angela Y. Davis

#62. Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.

Stephen H. Wolinsky

#63. The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.

Germaine Greer

#64. Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

Margery Wilson

#65. What is the status of Sak-tak and his squad? Report!" "We ran into a Rakorsian squad, and they were all killed." "Glory to the Ssrisk!" "No, you misunderstand. I mean, the Ssrisk squad was killed." "Eternal pain and torment to the Rakorsian scum!

Michelle Proulx

#66. As a child you don't question your parents' choices. You accept them. They are justified by the godlike status of parenthood.

Bruce Springsteen

#67. Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

Nelson Mandela

#68. Spirituality means, among other things, taking ourselves seriously. It means going against the cultural stream in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status of producers and performers, constantly depersonalized behind the labels of our degrees or our salaries.

Eugene H. Peterson

#69. The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

Ken Robinson

#70. And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

Richard Tarnas

#71. Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

J.I. Packer

#72. As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Steve Rushin

#73. In temperate countries, where man had succeeded in putting most forms of nature save his own under a reasonable degree of restraint, the status of the triffid was thus made quite clear. But in the tropics, particularly in the dense forest areas, they quickly became a scourge.

John Wyndham

#74. After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes ... I would normalize them at a rate of about two million per year.

Rand Paul

#75. When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

Ayn Rand

#76. Many men have deep rooted problems regarding the status of women, and during sex these problems come out. They consciously or unconsciously project anger and hate towards women they have sex with. This energy enters a woman's subtle physical body and damages it.

Frederick Lenz

#77. The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Bob Goodlatte

#78. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

#79. None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

Gary L. Francione

#80. The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

#81. It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.

Khloe Kardashian

#82. I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women ... A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.

Belle S. Spafford

#83. The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

Richard M. Weaver

#84. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

Billy Graham

#85. Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

Michelle Alexander

#86. Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.

Imran Khan

#87. The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

Susana Martinez

#88. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.

Timothy Keller

#89. These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

Alain De Botton

#90. Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

Dick Thornburgh

#91. The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants worst enemies.

Claire Wolfe

#92. The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

Alice Paul

#93. Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history.

Stasi Eldredge

#94. Hobbs and Sutcliffe. More than any other players in those years they raised the status of the professional cricketer.

Stephen Chalke

#95. Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

David Horsey

#96. Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

Jack Paar

#97. 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

#98. Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

F. Sionil Jose

#99. Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

William Graham Sumner

#100. I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

Trent Reznor