Top 1200 Quid Pro Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood, where women can go for all kinds of healthcare services. While reproductive rights span much further than the pro-life/pro-choice debate, Donald Trump has actually said he wants to "punish" women for having abortions. And Mike Pence is quite possibly the most anti-choice vice presidential candidate in history.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

Bret Hart, you don't really understand the business of the Pro Wrestling business. You only understand the Bret Hart business of the Pro Wrestling business, and they are two different things.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

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

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

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

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

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 never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

I'm very aware that pro wrestling fans can be some of the most vocal and passionate and descriptive about how they feel when it comes to pro wrestling. So I'm totally fine with how fans talk about how they feel, cause if they're not allowed to voice how they feel, then what's the point of being a wrestling fan. You gotta know what you like and what you do't like and that's fine.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

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

Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

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

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.

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

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.