#status

A person can't help their birth. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#vanity

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #definitely #essentially #exists #humiliating

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#find #hey #i #i think #increase

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out? ↗

— Andy Sawford

#ask #benefits #enterprise #few #freedoms

In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#by the people #change #clearly #decided #democratic

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

— Jenny Shipley

#governments #improving #ngos #play #role

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#best #best work #goal #i #i can

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. ↗

— Alfredo Stroessner

#country #exercised #fully #had #i

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #benefited #cannibal #changed #competitors