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The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity, — Robert A. Caro

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. — Bob Iger

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin

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

research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo. — Adam M. Grant

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status — Laurence J. Peter

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

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. — Jane Elliot

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot. — Helen Mirren

Anti-digital mindsets are those "status quo" types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making. — Pearl Zhu

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors. — Laura Miller

About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair. — Christopher Moore

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. — Warren Bennis

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

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

Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo. — Brian Klemmer

There is something in the American character, traditionally, that yearns to see the status quo kicked in the ass. — Alec Cizak

Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority. — Caroline Alexander

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. — Rick Perry

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo. — John P. Kotter

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok. — Dick Gephardt

To be impartial ... is indeed to have taken sides already ... with the status quo. — Desmond Tutu

no need of the quo Mars — Bob Marley

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo. — Hiroyuki Hirano

True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over. — Kate McGahan

Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. — Rick Perlstein

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. — Eric Weiner

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

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo. — Tom Wilkinson

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo. — Hyrum W. Smith

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. — Joseph Campbell

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. — Malcolm Gladwell

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower. — John C. Maxwell

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else. — H.W. Brands

Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked. — Rebecca Solnit

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo. — Jack Kemp

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. — John Lennon

Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo. — Terry Leahy

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things. — Gunnar Myrdal

The status quo cannot work. — Kofi Annan

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end. — Pearl Zhu

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night. — Seth Godin

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony. — Mark Sheppard

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. — Orrin Woodward

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. — Victor Davis Hanson

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

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

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point. — Ken Wilber

It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey. — John Le Carre

The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning. — Gene Kim

Most of us are adept at maintaining our self-structures and denying to awareness experiences which challenge our status quo. — Alan Coulson

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

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. — Karl Barth

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly. — Simone Weil

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision. — John C. Maxwell

All scientist are oglers, i suppose, the sensuousness is a sine quo non of modern technology — Aporva Kala

Is there a status quo in the house? — Stephen King

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo. — Desmond Tutu

There is always a solution to every challenging situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Whither right and glory lead) — Elizabeth II

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important. — Tom Green

Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo. — Frank Furedi

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

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

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo. — Seth Godin

Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself. — George F. Will

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist. — Uta Hagen

Public school system status quo is indefensible. — Barack Obama

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. — Jeff Fitzgerald

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place. — Ron Suskind

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us. — Viola Davis

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. — Mehmet Oz

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

The status quo is working. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running. — John Lennon

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. — Garry Kasparov

as a society we are trained to not question the status quo. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To insist that the kingdom of God is only spiritual is to promote the status quo. — Mark Shaw

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

Reality TV does actually have a message, folks. That message is selling and reinforcing capitalism, ignorance, and the status quo. — Kameron Hurley

Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future. — Mary Mihalic

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution. — Leon M. Lederman

Our nation today needs men and women who are bold enough to play on the field and passionate to change the status quo ! — Osunsakin Adewale

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

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. — Shane Claiborne

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

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary. — Chuck Klosterman

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future. — Richard Rohr

Status quos are made to be broken. — Ray A. Davis

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise. — Ian Anderson

Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it - and were often tainted by it. — Daniel Suarez

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

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself. — Jackie Haze

You know that you're truly successful when you can afford to fail. — Henry Mosquera

Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo. — David Brier

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

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

And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter? — Robert Louis Stevenson

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo. — John Collings Squire