Top 1200 Cool Status Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.

We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.

You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what most writers really care about.

Limos are fine for prime ministers or presidents who need the security, but there's no need for CEOs or executives to have one as a status symbol.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

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

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

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.

I don't want to take away deferred status from anyone who has it, but I also didn't want to send the message that it is OK to come here illegally.

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

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.

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.'

Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

The key thing I took from my upbringing is that people are just people. My parents never worried about status.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

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.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

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.

I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.