Status Quotes

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.

For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.

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

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

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

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

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.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

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

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

I believe in status symbols.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.