Status Quotes
I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.
No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.
Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.
The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.
The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.
We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.
I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.
Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.
If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.
We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.
People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.
