Quotes About Stagnation

the only difference between a rut and a grave is a few feet in depth.

The conversation at dinner hadn't been successful either; it bore the marks of an old married couple who had very little left to say to each other.

The first is the decline of communism (together with intrusive socialism). For reasons we have seen, market economies can generate wealth prodigiously while totalitarian planned economies impose scarcity, stagnation, and often famine.

For reasons we have seen, market economies can generate wealth prodigiously while totalitarian planned economies impose scarcity, stagnation, and often famine.

Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

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

I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.

The bureaucratization of life brings about its absolute decay in all orders.

El mediocre no inventa nada, no crea, no empuja, no rompe, no engendra; pero, en cambio, custodia celosamente la armazón de automatismos, prejuicios y dogmas acumulados durante siglos, defendiendo ese capital común contra la asechanza de los inadaptables.

The Senate was the home of governmental sclerosis.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far." —JODI PICOULT1

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

This crap had been going on for years now. In the absence of any real progress, gunter subculture had become mired in bravado, bullshit, and pointless infighting. It was sad, really.

I'll still be sitting on my ass all day, five blocks from where I graduated, working the same crappy retail job I had when I was sixteen?" I finished for her. "Exactly." I tried to look hurt. "I find your lack of faith disturbing.

I had heard the same carols all my life, seen the same little play, with the same mistakes in grammar. The minister had offered the same prayer as always, Christmas or Sunday. The same people wore the same old clothes and sat in the same places. Next year it would be the same, and the year after that, the same again. Vivian said things were changing. But where were they changing?

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake

some species or even large groups seem to have reached the end of their evolutionary possibilities a very long time ago, yet they have not died out, but have remained unchanged, or without significant change, for many millions of years.

Stand still. But not like Lot's wife." (From a talk on her book *Seeking God, Seeking Life*, (YouTube video), St Paul's, London, May 19, 2013)

Habit, routine, and too much consistency numb our minds and pave the road for us to sleepwalk through our lives. Nothing stays the same. Everything passes, and everything changes. However, do not move too much. As an apple tree cannot bear fruit if it is too often transplanted, neither will a knight who is always building a new castle.