Quotes About Complacency

Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

Maybe even suicide would have been too active. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change.

Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line [...]. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change [...]. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.

The normalcy bias can kill you.

This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

Some of my family were persecuted by Hitler, a few, a pitiful few. My uncle, a priest, was martyred in Dachau. But most of my relatives were complacent, asleep, or frightened.

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs.

The second was Yale's complacent refusal to accommodate its sought-after assistant professor's request for a promotion to associate professor. Such rapid advancement cut against the grain in New Haven. Ernest's academic superiors were unable to see past his youth, much

the self-satisfaction and material preoccupations of his time was independent of his point about the injustices of poverty, the Vietnam War, and racial discrimination. But he saw them as connected. To reverse these injustices, Kennedy thought it necessary to challenge the complacent way of life he saw around him. He did not hesitate to be judgmental. And yet, by invoking Americans' pride in their country, he also, at the same time, appealed to a sense of community.

The word "enough" has no relevance for us.

language of these intellectually impoverished young people is larded with ready-made phrases. They quote Stalin instead of thinking for themselves; they derive their opinion from Pravda editorials. They are arrogant and complacent, and everything that pertains to them is the greatest thing there is:

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else's. What's more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Rikkaat tulivat yhä rikkaammiksi ja mahtavat yhä mahtavammiksi ja köyhät yhä köyhemmiksi, kuten jumalat ovat säätäneet, niin että kaikki ihmiset olivat tyytyväisiä eivätkä napisseet.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Sho ga nai. Sho ga nai. That's all I ever hear.

in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different.

The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat. I mean, maybe being in a coma would be more boring, but at least then you're free to dream about all of your favorite foods. And the fact of the matter is, I don't have that much brain space to use thinking about it.

Thatz: "Why'd you have to get him all worked up? He'll drag us into it. Rune: "You're just lazy, Thatz.

It might seem as if he's been sitting around eating M& M's and scratching his ass for the past few months.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.