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Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in. -- Jack Graham
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise. -- Ian Anderson
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?] -- Horace
Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present. -- Donald Harington
Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never. -- Charles Hugh Smith
The status quo sucks. -- George Carlin
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. -- Warren Bennis
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. -- Stephen Colbert
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. -- Jane Elliott
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. -- Max Eastman
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. -- Therese Fowler
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo. -- Maximillian Degenerez
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo. -- John P. Kotter
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. -- Christopher Hitchens
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. -- Sandra Cisneros
This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized. -- Lupe Fiasco
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. -- Oscar Arias
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders. -- John P. Kotter
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. -- Simon Mainwaring
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels. -- Rita Dove
Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake. -- Claire Danes
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. -- Gloria Steinem
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. -- Carl T. Rowan
Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships. -- Simon Mainwaring
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. -- Eliot Spitzer
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. -- Steven Pinker
The status quo cannot work. -- Kofi Annan
The status quo is working. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch. -- Ted Nugent
I love challenging the status quo. -- Sara Ramirez
The status quo is simply unacceptable. -- Brad Henry
It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. -- Seth Godin
Public school system status quo is indefensible. -- Barack Obama
In love there is no status quo. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo. -- Hiroyuki Hirano
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo. -- Andrew Cuomo
Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution. -- Leon M. Lederman
We can walk together to change the status quo. -- Ken Wyatt
Acting for me is not that quid pro quo. -- Tom Wilkinson
The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly. -- Seth Godin
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. -- Warren Bennis
Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does. -- Ron Kaufman
Women challenge the status quo because we are never it. -- Cindy Gallop
A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower. -- John C. Maxwell
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo. -- Jack Kemp
Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing . -- Carlous Ruiz Zafon
A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo. -- Hyrum W. Smith
The status quo is never news, only challenges to it. -- Malorie Blackman
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. -- Clark Kerr
Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future. -- Mary Mihalic
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. -- Robert Byrne
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future. -- Seth Godin
The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country. -- Howard Dean
Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise. -- Jay Samit
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. -- Ronald Reagan
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision. -- John C. Maxwell
There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo. -- John le Carre
If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo. -- Seth Godin
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning. -- Gene Kim
Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress -- Katsuaki Watanabe
I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. -- John Lennon
It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo -- Phil Harding
Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. -- Rick Perlstein
If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change. -- Royce White
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. -- Bob Iger
We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo. -- Seth Godin
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony. -- Mark Sheppard
There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality. -- Umair Haque
Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it. -- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. -- Garry Kasparov
If the status quo came carbonated in a can, I'd shake things up. -- Jarod Kintz
I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo. -- Michael Nutter
If the status quo came carbonated in a can, I'd shake things up." -- Jarod Kintz
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. -- Harold Pinter
A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot. -- Helen Mirren
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it. -- Richard Powers
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo. -- Desmond Tutu
Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning. -- Marshall Ganz
State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal. -- Donald Trump
If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else. -- James Wolfensohn
Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction. -- Charles Koch
The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable. -- Karen Mills
It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely. -- Charley Reese
The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up. -- Wole Soyinka
It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo. -- J. C. Squire
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. -- Shane Claiborne
Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo. -- John P. Kotter
Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies. -- Scott Belsky
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. -- Orrin Woodward
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change. -- Laurence J. Peter
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. -- Seth Godin
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo. -- Howard Schultz
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. -- Mitch Daniels
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. -- Tony Campolo
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. -- Karl Barth
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo. -- John Collings Squire
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo. -- Ellen Hopkins
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. -- Laurence J. Peter
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist. -- Uta Hagen
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. -- Jane Elliott
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. -- Steve Lacy
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, -- Nomi Prins
Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo. -- Terry Leahy
The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo. -- Seth Godin
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. -- Frank Popoff
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. -- Vera Nazarian
In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo. -- Phil Ochs
When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go. -- Michael Demon Calce

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