Top 1200 Single Status Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

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.

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.

For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

I don't want to take away deferred status from anyone who has it, but I also didn't want to send the message that it is OK to come here illegally.

Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

Limos are fine for prime ministers or presidents who need the security, but there's no need for CEOs or executives to have one as a status symbol.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders.

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.

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.

While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

The key thing I took from my upbringing is that people are just people. My parents never worried about status.

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human.

I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work.

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Low socioeconomic status carries with it an enormously increased risk of a broad range of diseases, and this gradient cannot be fully explained by factors such as health-care access.

In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

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.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.