Status Quotes - page 6

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women. (Jenny Shipley)
The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. View quote
John H. Sununu
Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns. View quote
Juan Williams
Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me. View quote
Kyra Sedgwick
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins. View quote
Keith Henson
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. View quote
Keith Henson
A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries. View quote
Li Peng
It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. View quote
Madeleine Peyroux
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations. View quote
Michael N. Castle
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve. View quote
Olympia Dukakis
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. (Parker Stevenson)
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. View quote
Richard Lugar
I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status. View quote
Romeo Santos
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it? View quote
Sheldon Adelson
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. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. View quote
Spencer Bachus
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. View quote
Steve Lacy
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status. View quote
Susan George
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. View quote
Susana Martinez
I love challenging the status quo. (Sara Ramirez)
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. View quote
Sean Duffy
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional. View quote
Ted Olson
My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom. View quote
Vinny Guadagnino
Nor, do I believe in inequalities between human beings. We are all absolutely equal. But equality is of the souls and not the bodies. Hence, it is a mental state. We need to think of, and to assert, equality because we see great inequality in the physical world. We have to realize equality in the midst of this apparent external inequality. Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man. Thus caste, in so far as it connotes distinctions in status, is an evil. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi