Disrupting The Status Quo Quotes

#1. Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#2. You're not," he said, his quiet voice full of hatred. "Not what?" snapped Riddle. "Not the greatest sorcerer in the world," said Harry, breathing fast. "Sorry to disappoint you and all that, but the greatest wizard in the world is Albus Dumbledore. Everyone says so.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Peter O'Toole

#4. I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Damon Albarn

#5. Breaking up is hard to do ... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

Karen Salmansohn

#6. What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

Henry Rollins

#7. Express yourself completely. Then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature; When it blows, there is only wind; When it rains, there is only rain; When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.

Lao-Tzu

#8. In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

Calvin Miller

#9. In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

Michio Kaku

#10. If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

James Wolfensohn

#11. Despicable rabble," however, pretty much summed up George Washington's opinion of the troops when he arrived in Cambridge in July. In a letter to his brother John, the new commander in chief grumbled, "I found a mixed multitude of People here, under very little discipline, order, or Government.

Sarah Vowell

#12. I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.

Bipasha Basu

#13. You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

Robert Winston

#14. A shame. As promising as a sky full'a rainbows but as useful as a bag'a dirt.

Quoleena Sbrocca