Quotes About Stagnation

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Hindi cinema hasn't moved at all in terms of roles for actresses beyond 18 years.

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement.

They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens

The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity.

Their combined ages were two hundred and sixty-three years. None of them had ever been out of England, fought in a war, been in prison, ridden a horse, travelled in an aeroplane, got married, or given birth to a child. There seemed no reason why they should not continue in the same style until they died. Year in, year out, nothing ever happened in the Comstock family.

Each night passed with a devastating sameness.

Right to Work laws give workers a choice. Choice creates competition and competition breeds success. Forced unionization creates a monopoly, which only leads to stagnation.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

At FC Bayern, you know that, every year, you have to compete for titles - but, on the other hand, there is a possibility of stagnating at Bayern if you do not get the chances to play.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

I'm stuck in a waiting room with the TV on the same channel all day, and I'm never called in for my appointment.

Amelia Stapleton had frozen herself in a kind artificial girlhood which apparently resonated with the ghost of Georgiana Truelove. In fact, I saw a dreadful symmetry between the two: both of them unable to grow up, both of them preserved like insects in amber at this point of trauma, where their lives ended-Miss Stapleton's only metaphorically, but Georgiana Truelove's with a most dreadful literality.

Old incompetence is incompetence still.

She is the goddess of death, despair, stagnation, abandoned places. They say she is the only god who will protect them now, but they cannot reach her without a maze.

how would you ever know that if you stayed your whole life in the same patch?

This is why she can't get up. As long as she stays in bed everything's on hold.

i'm still waiting for someone to kick in the groove wake us up get the juices flowing and you know the shit gets more stale a little more square every day and we're diggin our own grave jumpin in head first and still we cry out for leaders to take us away start the groove over but the tunes are the same doesn't really matter where you start.