Quotes About Stagnation

Trapped behind the wall I've built around myself, unable to move or breathe or do anything but keep building it up around me, brick by brick, fast as I can.

She was beginning to look older to him. The view was the same. It didn't change.

They have so smothered me in their middle-class refinement that I don't know how there can be any blood left in my veins. I lowered my eyes, put on a dismal, silly expression, just like them; I was just as dead-and-alive as they were.

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants.

The giant trees are bending. Their bear boughs weighed with snow; The storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go.

Buff: What are you doing now? Bee-Bee: I don't know. You mean like now? Like right now? Waiting.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Where power is not joined with faith in the future, it is used mainly to ward off the new and preserve the status quo.

The contribution of the Western democracies to the awakening of the East has been indirect and certainly unintended. They have kindled an enthusiasm of resentment against the West; and it is this anti-Western fervor which is at present rousing the Orient from its stagnation of centuries.2

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status quo for the better, it changes for the worse. Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begin to decay.

La gente cree que lo importante es tener éxito, ganar prestigio, conseguir poder, subir por la escala social, servir a la máquina, pero la persona queda estancada. En realidad, más que estancada, empeora ligeramente. Cumplidos los 25 años, ya no se perfeccionan, sino que degeneran, aunque mejoren en el arte de ganar dinero y manipular a los demás. (...) El arte de escuchar

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

I believe that those in the city must be left to work out their own destiny," the hist-techneer said at last. "In a manner of thinking that choice is now a retreat. They wish life to remain as it always has been. But that is just what life never does. It goes up—one advances—or it goes down—one retreats. And if one tried to stand still—that is retreat.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

We don't want Welsh rugby to be seen as healthy or upbeat. If we think that, we could become complacent or stagnate.

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.