Status Quotes
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If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.
Ted Yoho -
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.
James Boswell
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
Jack Kemp -
The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
Karen Handel -
My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
J. Paul Getty -
Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
Yossi Sarid -
A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
Doris Day
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
Camryn Manheim -
We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.
Jack Kingston -
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
Brennan Manning -
We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.
Donald Miller -
Status symbols are poor excuses for values.
Mary Browne -
A plaque and platinum status iIs whack if I’m not the baddest.
Eminem
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei -
We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.
Michael Ignatieff -
I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.
Ehud Olmert -
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
Ken Robinson -
Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.
Katie Hopkins -
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?
Florynce Kennedy
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
Bela Lugosi -
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis -
Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
Antonio Machado -
They used to confide in me about how they hated it. I told them, 'You knew what you were getting into. You accept his money. You accept the status when you're around him. But you don't want to deal with the backlash of what comes out of his mouth, and you want to complain to me.'
Gary Sheffield