Quotes of Status - somelinesforyou

“ How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ”

- Hannah More

“ You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee. ”

- Lord Byron

“ You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds.". ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ”

- Booker T. Washington

“ I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Leadership is action, not position. ”

- Donald H. McGannon

“ They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ”

- Herman Melville

“ You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. ”

- Robert Byrne

“ Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ This is going to be a great test for the Cowboys, because the Chargers are a good team again. ”

- Troy Aikman

“ That's like a smack in the face before you even get started. I guess you can always be a critic when you're standing on the outside. ”

- Mike Wallace

“ By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. ”

- Robert Welch

“ It is time to call down the curtain on the sorry soap opera in the White House and restore dignity to the national stage. ”

- Pat Buchanan

“ It's very frustrating because we're always judging women on their appearance. It's so casual and never questioned. There needs to be somebody standing around and asking why this is still happening. ”

- Margaret Cho

“ A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service. ”

- C. T. Studd

“ The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life — to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ”

- Archibald MacLeish

“ I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art — and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. ”

- Marcel Duchamp

“ A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. - King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage. ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. ”

- Max Eastman
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