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Still invulnerable,' He calmly reminded the guy, as if updating his Facebook status. — Elizabeth Gannon

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status — D. B. Weiss

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status. — Octavia Butler

There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are. — Michael R. Fletcher

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

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does. — Rosie Malezer

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

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. — Paulo Coelho

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

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ. — Dillon Burroughs

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference: — Ken Keyes Jr.

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status. — Kerry Greenwood

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

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. — Alain De Botton

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

The legal status of something does not alter its moral status, nor does it change our responsibility to the truth. — John Stonestreet

We also use the name of Jesus in our prayers to acknowledge what he is doing now. Not only does Christ give us his holy status — Bryan Chapell

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue. — Al-Shafi'i

Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history. — Stasi Eldredge

The strong will always rule the weak. — A.J. Darkholme

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer! — Meg Cabot

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country. — Gore Vidal

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

The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort. — Billy Graham

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

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. — Ken Robinson

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

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life. — Bryant McGill

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. — Rands

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language! — Alec Baldwin

More than attitude, posture has also been used throughout history to communicate one's status in society. — Cindy Ann Peterson

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status. — Tammy Bruce

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man. — Antonio Machado

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

How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status? — John Scalzi

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers. — Ken Robinson

Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status. — C.Z. Hazard

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

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional. — Ted Olson

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

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender. — Sandra Bartky

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

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

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

Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be. — Elizabeth Kelly

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

The derogation of feminine status in lesser males is a consistent patriarchal trait. Like — Kate Millett

Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She — Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many, — Benjamin Graham

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. — Robert Graves

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

Updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we're in the — Suzanne Collins

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. — Germaine Greer

Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation) — Ricardo Cdcbsi 83592 Arjona

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

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status. — Mahatma Gandhi

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status. — Vivienne Westwood

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

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

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

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. — Shelley Berman

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

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status. — Rumi

Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status. — Andrea Leadsom

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

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. — Mahatma Gandhi

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. — Karl Shapiro

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. — Henry James Sumner Maine

Status: Naked. On bed. With boy. Systems overheating. Sudden doubts multiplying. Meltdown imminent. — J.C. Lillis

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz

Competition for status is a zero sum game — Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

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

You're actin' like a girl, wanting to add me on Facebook and change your relationship status, — L.A. Casey

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

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

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

Our society has made it extremely difficult for those living
with the virus to declare their status — Oche Otorkpa

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

Silence is the best response to a fool ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Rob Mullins is headed for status as an international celebrity. — Leonard Feather