Quotes About Stagnation

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

It is not a fragrant world.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.

My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.

Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

Our parting was like a stalemate….Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.

Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.

It's impossible to move through the stages of grief when a person is both dead and alive, the way Min is. It's like she's living permanently in an airport terminal, moving from one departure lounge to another but never getting on a plane. Sometimes I tell myself that I'd do anything for Min. That I'd do whatever was necessary for her to be happy. Except that I'm not entirely sure what that would be.

The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in his life. And there he remained.

It's amazing how folks can't see you, 'cause they want to keep you in that past.

I know I'm standing still, but I feel like I've stumbled and I'm starting to fall.

let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

He didn't want anything new in his life, no matter how beautiful.

There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment...

Me: The only way to describe the Earth these days is to compare it to rotten food or rotten sex. Georges: It doesn't sound like it's changed much. Sylvia: Nothing ever changes. Kathy: Everything changes. You've just forgotten how to see change. You're blind to it.

Land. It means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery.

It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.

An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.

Me visto con ropa que hace demasiados años que llevo, de una talla que no consigo variar, que me pone enferma, y que me ha hecho perder la voluntad de hacer algo respecto a... nada, o nada respecto a algo.

Your career is stagnating by the minute. You are steadily letting your sedentary computer-programming desk-bound lifestyle turn your body into mush. All of these problems are much bigger and harder to just fix than a bug. They're all complex, hard to measure, and comprised of many different small solutions—some of which will fail to work!