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.
Olympia Dukakis

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.
Dave Winfield

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
David Rockefeller

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
Sarah Palin

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
Philip Kaufman

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Victor Davis Hanson

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
Todd McFarlane

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren G. Bennis

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
Bob Iger

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

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

The status quo is simply unacceptable.
Brad Henry

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

The status quo sucks.
George Carlin

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

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