#status

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically. ↗

— Francis Chan

#christian #christianity #counter-cultural #discipleship #normal

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#black americans #changing #expect #i #i think

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#come running #confrontation #everybody #military #pick

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

#actions #attainment #country #depend #inhabitants

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#make #nation #status #such #superpower

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#actual #completely #conceive #doing #facebook

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#before #care #cast #did #health

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay. ↗

— Evan Davis

#although #anything #bbc #because #being

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #around #clear #data #eyes