Quotes About Stagnation

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

So many people want to label you as funny or aggressive or a mess. We are condemned by other people to stagnate in the image they have of us; held ransom by their expectations like a butterfly pinned on cardboard.

The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation.

The tyger's tail thumped behind her. "This stunted little world breaks my heart,' she said. 'So much here has stagnated and died. I wanted to remind you of what has been lost - but also of what is possible. You see, tygers could flourish only when they lived in freedom. And you have never known what it is to be free.

Bu hareketsizli?in,korkuya dayanan bu tereddüdün daha zararl? oldu?unu,insan münasebetlerinde bir noktada ta? kesilmi? gibi kal?namayaca??n?,ileriye at?lmayan her ad?m?n insan? geriye götürdü?ünü ve yakla?t?rmayan anlar?n muhakkak uzakla?t?rd???n? seziyor..

Change the ideas and keep the forms the same, and you will have changed little.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

They all say, Go on to graduate studies, and they give you a bit of money; so you do, and you think, Now I'm going to find out the real truth. But you don't find out, exactly, and things get pickier and pickier and more and more stale, and it all collapses in a welter of commas and shredded footnotes, and after a while it's like anything else: you've got stuck in it and you can't get out, and you wonder how you got there in the first place.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

She is a prisoner in the amber of her own past.

People froze you in place

People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine.