Status Quotes
1261 quotes by 1018 authors
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
— Gerry Adams
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
— Karl Barth
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
— Jello Biafra
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The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties…
— Erma Bombeck
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other,…
— Alain de Botton
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Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect,…
— Alain de Botton
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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.
— Eli Broad
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I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty…
— Sophia Bush
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I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses…
— James Caan
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For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
— Steve Carell
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I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
— Tony Campolo
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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
— Tony Campolo
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If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy…
— Drew Carey
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The status quo sucks.
— George Carlin
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If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status…
— Michael N. Castle
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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
— Chanakya
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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