Quotes About Stagnation

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada, y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz. Miro

Sabés lo que te pasa? Que no vas a ninguna parte.

Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz

Me tomó de un brazo y me dijo, casi apoyándose en mí: ¿Sabés lo que te pasa? Que no vas a ninguna parte.

the reason many of us get stuck in the six cages—the cage of responsibility, the cage of routine, the cage of assumptions, the cage of guilt, the cage of failure, and the cage of fear—is for one simple reason: We want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

The party did not bother to even produce a new platform, for the first time since 1856.

At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.

Even boredom has its crises.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

If you rest, you rust.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved...stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved—the Arabs more than the Christian Copts—kept them stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

The emptiness of your knowing everything about things you want to change, can't change anything.

Some innovations just don't attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in 2002) the potentialities of broadband (G3) technology are being taken up rather slowly because few people want to surf the Internet or watch movies from their mobile phones.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?