Stagnates Quotes

#1. And since beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful, and he is static, his life stagnates in a china sea.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Frank Herbert

#3. Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.

Madelaine Standing

#4. We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.

Sandra A. Thomson

#5. A life has to move or it stagnates.

Beryl Markham

#6. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

#7. The fear of criticism stagnates the power of creativity.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

Brownie Wise

#9. Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn't put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull.

Winifred Gallagher

#10. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

T. S. Eliot

#11. Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

Ralph Waite

#12. Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better.

Sachin Kumar Puli

#13. Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

Deepak Chopra

#14. With uncontrived sincerity he said, "I want to know you." That was one of the nicest things anyone had ever said to me.

Dan Harris

#15. The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn't who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.

Robert Koger

#16. What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

Brian Moore

#17. But it's not easy, because friendship is absent-minded or at least powerless. It cannot achieve what it wants. Perhaps, after all, it doesn't want strongly enough. Perhaps we do not love life enough.

Albert Camus

#18. But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

Marisha Pessl

#19. Instead of asking "what's the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

Deepak Chopra

#20. It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Christopher Dodd

#21. I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Blake Bailey

#22. Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

Garry Kasparov