Quotes About Stagnation

Salvatore threw up his hands. What's to become of us? We can't go on like this. Yes, we can go on like this, said Cesare. We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.

He must be a grown man, stolid, reliably fulfilling his duties, married perhaps, someone's breadwinner - in other words, one of the living dead.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

And then I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

I often found it helpful to think of central Africa in the mid-1990s as comparable to late medieval Europe - plagued by serial wars of tribe and religion, corrupt despots, predatory elites and a superstitious peasantry, festering with disease, stagnating in poverty, and laden with promise.

It has a wheel in its cage; ever seen a squirrel running inside a wheel? It runs and runs, the wheel spins, but the squirrel stays in the same spot. Buffy seems to like it, though. I guess squirrels aren't too bright, Rick said.

Mankind's lot, Cartwright observed, hadn't changed much, of late. The Classification system, the elaborate Quizzes, hadn't done most people any good. The unks, the unclassified, remained.

Tu pleci, in timp ce altii, nu prea multi, raman pe loc, continuand sa faca ceea ce au facut dintotdeauna, iar cand te intorci, te minunezi ca-i vezi tot acolo si pe moment te simti usurat fiindca exista cineva care-si petrece intreaga viata in acelasi locsor, neavand deloc chef sa plece.

That box from which you cannot force your way out. That box in which a twelve-year-old was twelve years old forever.

For almost a thousand years, from before 500 to 1400, the cryptology of Western civilization stagnated.

Yet even for some, the stagnation looms over life. It breeds political dysfunction, and it helps explain why so many Americans aren't swayed by facts. When you have been struggling for decades, you tend to lose faith in society's institutions and their sober-minded experts.

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

Under the table, I crossed my legs so hard it hurt. I was using all the strength it would take to run away, only to stay still.

People change in some ways as they grow; in other ways they don't.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

My child, after a certain age, everything is the same as everything else and there's nothing that serves as a goal anymore.

fortuna y el amor mueren cuando se hacen rutina.

She fears the destination. Be objective! What is the fear? It it something to do with death and time and age. Simply: I am eighteen in my mind I am eighteen and if I do nothing if I stand still nothing will change I will be eighteen always. For always. Time will stop. I'll never die.

It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia.

Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.

But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like youre in a bag and you cant get out and somebodys always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain. … And then eventually it does break and its six months later. Like you just got your summer clothes out and then its Christmas and inbetween there are ten years of pain.