Top 1200 Quid Pro Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Everyone needs to move - if you're a pro athlete, a contortionist, a computer programmer, or just somebody who wants to play with their kids.

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Not many fighters respect Chael Sonnen because he's in the wrong sport. He should be in pro-wrestling with a mouth like that.

Regardless of who leaves and who stays, Ring of Honor is going to continue to be a healthy, growing, successful pro wrestling promotion.

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.

Obviously, not many people get to be pro athletes and hopefully make it in their sport. So I'm just lucky enough to have the chance.

The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

A pro football player is lucky. He has a chance to meet a lot of people and make some potential business connections.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it was in giving a pat on the back to journalists who maintained the status quo by giving readers the warm and fuzzies over their morning paper.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

When I watch Ernie Johnson do the celebration at the conference championships, I marvel at how smooth he is. The guy is just the consummate pro.

I walked away from pro football and a $2.9 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers because I didn't want to develop CTE.

When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly. You develop a contrarian attitude. Your instinct is to disagree with the status quo and then, if you can, to try and shake it up.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?

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.

There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

I want people to say that Jack Swagger/Jake Hager is a world champion in MMA and in pro wrestling.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.

In terms of being honored at the TNA Hall of Fame, I think that's something that every pro wrestler dreams about.

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Despite Obama's claim that pro-Second Amendment groups want less gun safety, the opposite is true.

I am pro-technology that improves the lives of many people in any way possible, and I think the blockchain has the potential to do that.

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.

When you treat your career early on really crappy, you can't expect to be in a good position. That's just the way pro fighting is.

Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

I had a very humble upbringing, earned everything I got, and learned how challenging it is in the pro wrestling business.

I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.

It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.

Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.

I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.

I used to have an afro - like Will Ferrell in 'Semi-Pro.' It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.

I would say I'm pro-choice only because I don't feel that it's right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone.

You can't claim to be pro-life and then vote to remove the restrictions that prevented government-funded abortions in the District of Columbia.

A pro at Bayern doesn't merely have to play football; he has a range of other appointments on behalf of the club. It all drains your energy.

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

I'm going to show you how we do it in New Japan Pro Wrestling. That's what you get whenever I wrestle, whoever's in the ring with me.