Top 1200 Maintaining The Status Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.

Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.

In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

Facebook's new relationship status option: "No longer able to interact with actual people"

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. Its a status that does exist.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are not careful, a great adventure of the mind will become yet another profession.

Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.

Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance.

From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

I mean, the liberal democrats aren't going to tell the average American, "Yeah, you're being shafted because of the policies that we've established over the years that we're maintaining now." That's not going to be an answer. And they're not getting answers from the left.

It was great to get rid of the long hair. It's such a pain that, if you look at it, it's always wet when guys wrestle: you dump gallons of conditioner in it to keep it wet so you're not choking on it. You have all kinds of stuff in it, and just maintaining it is a lot of work.

Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

In 'Batman Beyond,' Terry McGinnis has the responsibility of protecting Gotham City, as well as maintaining a home and social life. He's also got a single mom and a pesky younger brother, which young kids will relate to.

Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing.

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

I only want to use my status as a comic actor to bring about a difference to society.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.

The Internet and my web site have grown to become essential components of my business. The expertise and support that LuxSci continually delivers is crucial to maintaining the worldwide contact I need to succeed. LuxSci provides peace of mind!

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

It's irresponsible to scare E.U. nationals in the U.K. by hinting that their status might change after Brexit.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

A brand today is much more than status. Consumers have to be able to trust it.

While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

I eat healthy and drink a lot of water. I eliminated most white sugar and dairy from my diet. It's done wonders for me not only in maintaining a healthy weight, but it's increased my energy levels and immunity.

Too many immigrants lack basic workplace protections because of their immigration status.

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.

In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.

Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don’t know about [their status].

I pretty much eat when I'm hungry, and I don't eat when I'm not hungry. That is my best philosophy for maintaining my weight.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.