Top 1200 Status Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

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.

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

Earthly families all look different. And while we do the best we can to create strong traditional families, membership in the family of God is not contingent upon any kind of status - marital status, parental status, financial status, social status, or even the kind of status we post on social media.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

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

Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.

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

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

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

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

Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

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

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

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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