Quotes about Status

"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new."
-Galileo Galilei

"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."
-Robert Byrne

"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."
-Betty Friedan

"I don't know if boring is the right word to describe the coming year. But it's not likely there will be anything controversial. It's going to be a status quo kind of year. The Legislature is in an enviable position as to what to do with all the extra money that is coming in."
-Andrew Smith

"Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world."
-Clifford Stoll

"There's a fair amount of status in being one of the few companies to own a team. And the parent company can give their free tickets and best seats to the companies they're trying to do business with."
-Jim Allen

"We have done things that have challenged the status quo."
-Phile Chionesu

"If you're a married couple filing jointly and the total amount of income is $50,000 or less, then you're good to go. But if that income exceeds that with marital status, no, you wouldn't be able to use free file."
-Bill Brunson

"When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me."
-Aaron Copland

"It's status quo, I don't see anything that changes. It's shocking that, after six weeks, you would be happy with just letting it go for as long as it takes to get a deal."
-Lise Lareau

"Which is to maintain the status quo by keeping Theresa Schiavo alive until the federal courts have a new and adequate opportunity to consider the constitutional issues."
-Charles Wilson

"We did two great things this past week - we beat Mullins at home and gained No. 1 status in the region. To me that should've gotten us up to the task of playing Kingstree."
-Leon Johnson

"Basically they've submitted some additional information to the Department of Public Health that we are going to be looking at so there has been no changes to the allegations or to the violations yet. The status hearing is now set for March 10th."
-Melaney Arnold

"It could be a merger with another player, it could be joint-venturing a material part of our business with someone, it could be financing the company in a completely different way, it could be just maintaining the status quo."
-Joe Houssian

"This kicks the issue to the next conference of CITES parties, when we'll hopefully have more info on poaching and the status of elephant populations."
-Karen Steuer

"I believe that to solicit funds from private individuals, to open bank accounts, and to disburse and manage these funds without a duly-registered non-profit status is against the law."
-Mary Johnson

"For both mice and men, social status is important; for mice, losing to a dominant mouse usually means that they avoid the dominant and they avoid social situations."
-Thomas Insel

"It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, celebratory thing."
-Brett Anderson

"The government is convinced that we cannot maintain the status quo and we have the political will to make serious progress. Any advance will be positive."
-Josep Pique

"This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson's wife. Rove never once indicated to me that she had any kind of covert status."
-Matt Cooper

"We hope that soon we will be able to reach such an agreement, which will put our bilateral relations on a permanent status."
-Oded Eran

"I yelled them updates, I told them what the status was. I told them he's out of seizure and told them CPR was in progress."
-Adam Simpkins

"We view the NFL Scouting Combine as one of the hidden gems still left in the NFL. This is an event NFL Network believes in and will look to grow to NFL Draft-like status."
-Charles Coplin

"I think it does deserve to have Test and one-day status."
-Shaun Pollock

"The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science."
-Claude C. Hopkins

"You see Nicky's name listed numerous times. We use that 'celebrity status' to our advantage."
-Mark Nordby

"Certainly anyone with the status of Andy Young can't be harmful."
-Gene Ferguson

"We did not take it lightly. We declared full alert status, convened the crisis committee and directed the intelligence service to validate the reports."
-Arturo Lomibao