143 Quotes About Status-quo

Moreover, we were to each other aspects of a dream unrealized. I emblemized the excitement of freedom, a life untethered by the confines of constructs. She illustrated a sense of belonging, of ongoing laughter in the face of those constructs, a true lifeline within the walking dead. We were standing in different places, yet the same, seeing within each other a sense of truth within the lies, a radiant light that illuminated the dark.

The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.

New characters always cause a reshuffle.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

You know that you’re truly successful when you can afford to fail.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.