Status Quotes

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.

I love challenging the status quo.

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.