Quotes About Stagnation

On the other hand, job growth remained flat and inflation was still very low.

Conservative" means maintaining the status quo, and I think the status quo stinks.

La variété, c'est la vie, l'uniformité, c'est la mort." [ De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation dans leur rapports avec la civilisation européenne (1914)]

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe.

When we were doing 'Five Centimeters Per Second,' at that time, Japan was in an era when it felt nothing would ever change, so I wanted to make a movie that reflected that feeling.

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform... that's very serious.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

Nothing interesting ever happens on motorways or in hotels.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.

Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.

To ask the power to reform itself, what a dullness!

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. He's done nothing for so long that nothing is all he can do.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.

Jake, we haven't tried for awhile. Tried what? Just to walk out. No. Why haven't we? Because we're in a place where a horse shits rainbows. Right.

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.