#status

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

#available #became #because #celebrity #celebrity status

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#health #here #love #money #old

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated. ↗

— Angela Davis

#being #black #color #contemporary #economies

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. ↗

— Clark Kerr

#only #quo #solution #status #status quo

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#affirmation #insecurity #self-esteem #status #uncertainty

Dr. Horrible: 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 is a mess and I just need to rule it. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humor #status-quo #wit #world-domination #humor

He offered her power, money, status... a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#love #lovers #money #power #prison

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death a mysterious event. ↗

— M.H. Hyndman

#atheist #christian #confidence #death #empire

If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #happiness #life #love #relationship