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.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Source Unknown

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

William Shakespeare

If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless

Thomas Jefferson

Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts.

Toba Beta

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Barack Obama

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Todd McFarlane

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patti Smith

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Madeleine Albright

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

Tanith Lee

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Nora Ephron

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

George A. Smith