Quotes about Prestige
By losing our focus on the small band of terrorists who had actually planned and carried out 9/11 and instead defining the threat as an open-ended, all-encompassing "War on Terror," we'd fallen into what I believed was a strategic trap—one that had elevated al-Qaeda's prestige, rationalized the Iraq invasion, alienated much of the Muslim world, and warped almost a decade of U.S. foreign policy.
— Barack Obama
Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.
— Eugene Peterson
Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.
— Anne Frank
This morning, when I was sitting in front of the window and taking a long, deep look outside at God and nature, I was happy, just plain happy. Peter, as long as people feel that kind of happiness within themselves, the joy of nature, health and much more besides, they'll always be able to recapture that happiness. Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.
— Anne Frank
Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.
— Seth Godin
he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
— George Eliot
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
— Mark Twain
The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.
— Mark Vonnegut
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
— Malala Yousafzai
They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.
— Anonymous
Top people take The Times.
— Anonymous