#status quo

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#characters #deal #essentially #events #grow

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

#conventional #dramatic #event #lax #like

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#preserve #quo #status #status quo #systems

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

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

#best #between #create #criticism #dream

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#desire #down #face #go #hard

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

#again #challenged #era #feats #game

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

#accepted #because #been #considered #country

The status quo is simply unacceptable. ↗

— Brad Henry

#simply #status #status quo #unacceptable

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#better #bigger #dissatisfaction #feels #ferment