I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo… to give… — Shirley Chisholm 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
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that… — PZ Myers 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
“Americans, in foreign policy, are torn to the point of schizophrenia. They are reluctant, than aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If we give up the rules-based international order, and allow changes to the status quo by force, the effects will also spread… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans'… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka 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
For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road;… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Self-love is an act of holy disruption. To love yourself in a world that profits directly from your self-loathing is the ultimate… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo. — Kristin Linklater 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
“You dreamed like all mothers do. Until he began to speak aloud, Your boy, calling for justice in the market place, Demanding… — Edwina Gateley Copy Share Image
The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will… — David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Mira was scowling. It annoyed her, almost as a matter of principle, that anyone of this man's age, race, gender, wealth, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
