Status Quotes

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

In love there is no status quo.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.

I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.

Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.

Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

A simple "Hi" has potential to make you blush, if received from your crush ...

As you start and end your day, say THANK YOU for every little things in your life. And you will come to realize how blessed you truly are.

I'LL LET YOU FREE IN MY NEVERLAND

DEAR LIGHT : you colored my life, and then you destroy me!

Another Definition For Facebook - A place where people can share their feelings and others can like it even if it's a sad feeling or a happy one.

The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point