Top 1200 Quid Pro Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

But for me it's critical to have pro football in Europe on a weekly basis. One exhibition game a year over here isn't going to do it.

We don't differ with the government on the demands [on Iran], but we totally reject how Bibi is handling it. Bibi sacrificed good relations with the U.S. to keep the status quo on the Palestinians. He poked the [Obama] Administration in the eye on settlements just to appease right-wingers

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.

In nearly a decade in city government, I have learned that the easiest thing to do in government is nothing. And in trying to deliver change, there will be those who are invested in the status quo who will be disrupted, or uncomfortable, or even lose out.

If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

Cowboy boots you can't wear unless you actually are a cowboy or in a Status Quo tribute band, or over 60; there's something about a retiring gent in cowboy boots that looks sort of presidential.

People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.

I am still very much rooted in what I really fell in love with, with sports entertainment and pro wrestling.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

For me, travel is one of the biggest perks of pro wrestling. You get to see the world on somebody else's dime.

Full and immediate expensing is widely recognized as one of the most pro-growth tax policies around.

We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996.

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that the movie is about, because it basically gives you three options for looking at the police, as symbolized by Dave Brown.

Always that's a goal with everybody who plays a pro sport is to get stronger and faster and work on things that you lack.

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

I use the right hemisphere of my brain and what I have is this advantage that makes me exceedingly interesting in pro wrestling.

Pro wrestling is so physical and taxing and just hurts your body; it's very aggressive entertainment.

To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

The status quo tough-on-crime policies of the '90s and 2000s are not working and are not popular. And it provides me with hope about the possibilities for San Francisco and this whole country in terms of moving away from our dependence on prisons and jails to solve social problems.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Kashmiri people should not get misguided by pro-Pakistani elements and remember that their future is linked to India.

If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change.

I think when somebody wants to work diligently, when somebody wants to take away the cobwebs and see where attention is needed, to fix things, there is obviously going to be a backlash from those who have, for years, gained from status quo.

Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.

Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.

We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

Shoot, if you need any added motivation, the first thing is you have to be a pro to play this game and finish it right.

When you get to go out and perform on a great pro wrestling show, it's awesome. It's hard not to enjoy it.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

What I hope is that politics shouldn't be dominated by the pro-Chinese elite; it should be related to everyone's daily life.

In building a management team, I look for integrity, loyalty, vision, and a willingness to think outside of the box, and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.

You get drafted, you perform like a Pro Bowler, then they pay you. But there's certain teams in this league, that's not what they're trying to do.

We have launched Champion's Pro Kushti to revive the passion for the game of wrestling in India, the country where it actually originated.

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

Every time I tour, I find a pro - I go to the local tennis center in that country, wherever it is and I play.

I do work incredibly hard. I eat, sleep, and breathe pro wrestling with all of my heart, and I'm always committed to giving this my all.

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.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

Well, I'm pro-life, and I've been pretty clear about that. So I think we should do everything we can to protect the unborn.

We look at MMA and working pro wrestling as one and the same, they're just two different sides of the coin.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

When Obamacare was introduced, Republicans and Democrats knew the status quo wasn't working. But Republicans rejected the notion that to help 2 million people with preexisting conditions get access to care, we needed a 2,000-page bill that transformed one-sixth of the economy.

Winning a pro tournament is another step toward getting fights against higher-ranked opponents.