Stagnated Quotes

#1. Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.

Bill Dedman

#2. Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

James MacDonald

#3. I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

Gary Gilmore

#4. Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

Nina Easton

#5. As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Mary E. DeMuth

#6. Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

Jane Jacobs

#7. We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

Tamara Hill

#8. There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.

Mara Liasson

#9. And astronomy stagnated for decades because Nicolaus Copernicus refused to publish his original discovery that the earth revolves around the sun. Fearing rejection and ridicule, he stayed silent for twenty-two years, circulating his findings only to his friends. Eventually,

Adam M. Grant

#10. Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

Isaac D'Israeli

#11. When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call "the first derivative." Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.

Eric Sink

#12. Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).

John Bradshaw

#13. Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

Nicholas Kristof

#14. Wow. I thought I was the only person at this school faking every moment.

Katie McGarry

#15. Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

#16. Of course you'd say that. That's your answer to everything. Rub some penis on it, it should clear right up.

Veronica Larsen

#17. I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.

Richard Brautigan

#18. The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse ... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices ...

Margot Adler

#19. Everything's uglier up close.

John Green

#20. People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul ...

Jeannette Walls

#21. Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Hermann Ebbinghaus