Status Quo Quotes - Page 16

• The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

  David Roberts

  Carbon Emissions, Black, Lines

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• This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Believe, Dark, Differences

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.344, Random House

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• The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

  Hallie Flanagan

  People, Want, Ancestry

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• Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

  Wendy Davis

  Believe, Texas, Long

  "Wendy Davis Announces She's Running For Texas Governor" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.marieclaire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.

  Scott Ashjian

  Jobs, Choices, Complaining

  "Tea Party Hopeful - Gives Voters Third Choice". Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 08, 2010.

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• The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Diagnosis, Difficult, Clear

  Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, 2013.

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• In love there is no status quo.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.112, New Victoria Publishers

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• Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

  Peter Diamandis

  Attitude, Thinking, Careers

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• It was simply this: silence is not a neutral position, whatever your intentions. Silence automatically supports the status quo. When you are a presence that lacks a voice, you create an empty space that another voice - a dominating voice that knows no boundaries - is only too happy to fill.

  Justine Musk

  Voice, Space, Support

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• Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Creativity, Past, Imagination

  "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

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• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  Abdallah II

  Running, Military, Pieces

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• Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

  Karen Mills

  Care, Small Business, Concern

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• The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Acceptance, Personality, Liberty

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Sean Duffy

  Senior, Cutting, Different

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Struggle, Adventure, Independent

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• My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Challenges, Events

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

  Julie Christie

  Children, Growing Up, Media

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• New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

  Willow Bay

  Media, Challenges, Television

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• The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

  Gene Kim

  Development

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• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Democratic, Democratic Party

  "Kemp Gives Early Look At Strategy" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. August 16, 1996.

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• Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

  Cindy Gallop

  Challenges

  "Cindy Gallop On Bars In Shanghai And Women In Advertising". ADC Interview, adcglobal.org. November 11, 2013.

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• You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

  Seth Godin

  Choices, Mediocrity, Settling

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• The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

  Al Gore

  Effort, Details, Research

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.40, Routledge

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• Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned.

  Beth Moore

  Sunset, Color, Law

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