Quotes About Stagnation

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Birinin sizi sevebileceÄŸine inan?p inanmad???n? sorars?n?z ona. Hiçbir durumda sevilemeyeceÄŸinizi söyler. Ölüm yüzünden mi? diye sorars?n?z. Evet, der, duygular?n?zdaki bu yavanl?k, bu duraÄŸanl?k yüzünden, denizin siyah olduÄŸu yalan?n? söylemeniz yüzünden.

Tengo quince años y medio, en ese país las estaciones no existen, vivimos en una estación única, cálida, monótona, nos hallamos en la larga zona cálida de la tierra, no hay primavera, no hay renovación

You can see as many towns as you like but it never gets you anywhere. And once you have stopped looking, there you are, exactly where you were before.

A él le parecía que Gertrudis se había convertido con los años en una especie de mueble, que había dejado de ser una persona viviente.

I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.

Free speech and a dynamic, innovative society are intimately connected: a culture that can't bear a dissenting word on race or religion or gender fluidity or carbon offsets is a society that will cease to innovate, and then stagnate, and then decline, very fast. As American universities, British playwrights, and Australian judges once understood, the 'safe space' is where cultures go to die.

The fixed is the world without fire- dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.

The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Radicalism and old-fogyism, of which we have lately heard from a political master, whose eloquence has been employed in teaching us that progress can only be expected from those whose declared purpose is to stand still.

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.

My mind rebels at stagnation.

And we're back where we started. Beginning to feel like I'm riding a hamster wheel.

To make a long story short, he went round and round—it helped like cupping helps a corpse.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

Always the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations, the same problems. The more it changes, the more it repeats itself. In the end, you feel as if you're dying alive.

But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops.