Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. — Jeff Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. — Devon Aoki Copy Share Image
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who… — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we'll find… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be… — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football… — James Balog Copy Share Image
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure. — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to… — Sara Ramirez Copy Share Image
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the… — Michael Bennett Copy Share Image
True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
