Status Quotes

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)
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. View quote
Warren Bennis
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. View quote
Steve Jobs
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
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. View quote
William Graham Sumner
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
The status quo sucks. View quote
George Carlin
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. (Morihei Ueshiba)
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. View quote
Robert Graves
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. View quote
Stephen Harper
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing. View quote
Marc Jacobs
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. View quote
Greg Bear
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. View quote
Chanakya
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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. View quote
Mehmet Oz
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. (Peter Straub)
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. View quote
Rebecca Wells
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 face and status. View quote
Sophia Bush
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. View quote
Joseph Murray
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. View quote
Claude C. Hopkins