I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

- Emile M. Cioran

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

- Julie Bishop

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

- Jon Evans

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

- J. Paul Getty

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

- Ivan Krastev

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

- Ian Schrager

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

- Hrithik Roshan

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

- Howard Dean

The status quo sucks.

- George Carlin

What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.

- Elsa Peretti

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

- Andrew Cuomo

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

- Ehud Olmert

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

- Devon Aoki

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

- Camryn Manheim

I believe in status symbols.

- Brooks Stevens

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

- Brad Henry

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

- Bob Iger

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

- Bill Cosby

The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.

- Ayman Odeh

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali