Quotes About Stagnation

She parked, and the Cadillac, dark as bruised blood, stayed there for two years.

The predictable effect of such a system was to encourage not just stagnation and inefficiency but a permanent cycle of corruption. It is one of the paradoxes of the Socialist project that the absence of property tends to generate more corruption, not less.

S]he found it impossible to move, the weight of her failure keeping her anchored to the sofa.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose time had already passed.

Den, der raster, ruster.

In conclusion, the good can be made better; the bad remains bad.

D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

Letting ourselves be where we are leads us someplace new. Keeping ourselves locked where we wish we were, leads to stagnation.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Republicans have been running on tax-cut proposals since the era of Harding and Coolidge. Tax-rate reductions and simplifications are urgently needed. But again, there is no mention of the key problems of a global economy in decline—of the acceptance by economic elites of inevitable and irremediable stagnation. We have not faced the fact that the Federal Reserve's capacity to command growth is a god that has failed.

You have dizzying change where there's no progress.

The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon — it won't work and you can't fire it.

The cliche is dead poetry.

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

The only menace is inertia.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Security is a kind of death.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

What do you mean SOS?" "Same old shit, Dickie. It's always SOS with you.

This shit between them was killing them both, but they were stalled out. Unable to make things work; unable to let things go. It was a mess.