Quotes About Stagnation

The rover couldn't go any further.

Como se sabe, los Borbones ni aprenden, ni olvidan.

Los cambios son meramente cosméticos para que opere el principio lampedusiano: 'cambiarlo todo para que nada cambie.

Routines are unyielding. They take hold like lice.

Un mundo sin novelas es un mundo estancado, cuya visión de sí mismo se estanca, cuya identidad se estanca; en el caso de pueblos nuevos como lo eran los americanos, desesperados por saber quiénes eran y cual era su lugar en el mundo, esta carencia puede tener consecuencias dramáticas.

Un mundo sin novelas es un mundo estancado

Az unalom – írja Tolsztoj – a vágy utáni vágy." A vágynak ez a hiánya éppúgy a helyéhez szögezi az embert, mint bármilyen szorongás. Akármennyire is unalmas és fájdalmas a kényelmi zónánk, ha végignézünk a lélektani láthatáron, és semmi nem hívogat, egy helyben maradunk.

He smiled. Her stomach felt strange. She tried to smile back. She really should be going. So naturally, she did not move.

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

I am constantly amazed at the musicians that are able to do the same thing over and over for 20 or more years. That would drive me absolutely insane.

If you want more of the same, Mitch McConnell is your guy. He is the ultimate insider. He is the epitome of dysfunction in Washington.

So many of our institutions have been overtaken by schools of thought, which are inherently a dead end.

Those who grow, live and die. The stagnant pool is immortal, while the clear flowing river dies an uncountable number of deaths.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

Algunas cosas no cambian. Hay cosas encerradas detrás de los muros que no pueden cambiar porque nadie las oye.

Non tutto. Vi son cose che restano rinchiuse dentro i muri e non possono cambiare perché nessuno le sente.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and what appears not to move at all.

Tu n'obtiendras rien de la contrainte. Tu pourras à la rigueur les contraindre à l'immobilité et au silence et, ce résultat durement acquis, tu seras bien avancé. (p. 13)

En un país donde puede pasar TODO, no pasa NADA.

Colombia cambia pero sigue igual, son nuevas caras de un viejo desastre.

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

Unser ganzes Unglück rührt daher, dass wir uns nie wiederholen wollen. Als gebe es mehrere Wahrheiten.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.