Top 645 Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.
Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.
Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.
I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
I try to use my influence and empower my community to always question the status quo - whether it relates to broader policy issues or YouTube gossip.
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.
Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.
I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.
Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.
The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of 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.
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands.
[Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.
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.
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.
Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
The status quo is clearly broken, and we must strive for bigger, bolder solutions that will provide New Yorkers with the support they need to remain in their homes.
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our neighborhoods, to make sure that everyone has opportunity.
Significantly reorienting our immigration system towards skilled workers and away from unskilled aliens should be a non-negotiable quid pro quo for amnesty.
I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.
We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.
When it all boils down, being Courtney has forced me to be different to the status quo, which means I have gotten to decide on every choice along the way.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.
In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.
