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.
In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.
Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.
Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.
I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc. , are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status.
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.
I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
It's the first thing liberals notice about people is what group are you in! "What group do I put you in? Are you a woman? Are you lesbian? Are you straight? Are you Native American? Are you African-American? Are you a mix? What are you?" That's how they see people, because that then identifies the victim status they hold. Victims of what? Victims of America! All these people are victims of America, "the white, patriarchal majority. " They're all victims of America, as the left sees them.
Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.
It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.
The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
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.
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.
Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.