Stagnant Quotations

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.

Potentially on a very hot day in the Central Valley or Southern California, with very stagnant air, it might lead to a violation of federal ozone standards. But this is an emergency situation. ... And the consequences of the hurricane here are minor compared with what is happening in the Mississippi Delta.

I don't know what happened in the second quarter. All of the sudden we just got stagnant and stopped doing things offensively, and then we got worse defensively while they took control of the game.

I felt like we did everything right in the first half ? our inside game, our outside game, we were finding people, defensively. I thought we got very stagnant in the second half.

We looked stagnant and out of rhythm and they took advantage of it. For whatever reason, we play well against the teams above .500 and not so well against the lottery teams. I don't know if we aren't giving them enough respect, but we just don't play a full 48 minutes against those type of teams.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

I went around to different points and as I caught her I would have her do different running techniques. Otherwise Brooke's mind might go stagnant from being bored.

Marketers trying to grow their business over the next 10 years can either target the stagnant 18-49 segment, or they can develop strategies to appeal to the fast-growing 50-plus segment.

Stagnant wages and skyrocketing healthcare, education and housing costs, plus greater job instability has pushed America's families right to the limit, and they're borrowing on high-cost credit just to make ends meet.

Our offense was stagnant again in the second half. We didn't have the movement that we talked about, the passing that we talked about or the shots that we were looking to get. Grove City's defense in the second half knocked us out. We had trouble getting our shots.

It does appear that after a very long period of stagnant growth, the Japanese economy is beginning to fire on all cylinders, most importantly the domestic consumption and investment cylinders.

I went to the site, ... This is the Fountains of the something or other. It is really now just a big, big pool of stagnant water, with garbage thrown in.

Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary to govern effectively, independent thought produces original ideas and is the key factor by which we progress as a society. When independent thought is stifled society is and will remain stagnant until it is free to flourish once again.

I thought our offense was a little stagnant at times in the first half. I don't know, maybe we were a little tired. Defensively, we played much better in the second half and came back.

We were stagnant during the middle part of the game. They were able to get the tempo to their liking and we just didn't make the necessary adjustments.

That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight to us early. Our offense was very stagnant today.

You know, I never have been a stagnant kind of individual. I've been in the Senate 22 years. I'm still stimulated by the challenges that it offers, but here's a whole new arena in which to deal, whole new set of challenges, whole new kind of authority, a chance for growth, and how could I say no?

While all other sectors of the U.S. economy are growing, manufacturing employment is either stagnant or declining. We're losing the low-skilled, brawn-intensive manufacturing jobs to countries that offer abundant cheap labor, and the plants that remain tend to employ programmers and engineers that are skilled in today's technology.

We continue to be far from that mark here in New Jersey. Once again, a confluence of pressures, ranging from inadequate payments from governmental payers to a growing number of uninsured all contributed to the stagnant bottom lines.

We've got stagnant general funds and obligations. We've got looming deficits on the riverfront but there are no clear answers there.

We really played stagnant on offense. We had a lot of standing. We reverted back to some bad basketball habits.

Today's (consumer confidence) numbers do very little other than to simply confirm what we had predicted some time ago, that a consumer spending slowdown is basically inevitable so long as the employment climate remains as stagnant as it is,

We have lots of homes for upper income people, but the middle class is being squeezed stagnant wages and the cost of homes rising so fast -- 8 percent, 9 percent a year.

We didn't do a very good job of moving and screening and we were stagnant out there. We contributed to our own problems. They did a good job isolating (Fugate) and she played a tremendous part in this game.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool....

We were kind of stagnant on offense and they were sagging off of me a little bit and it was making it difficult for our offense to run. So, I knew I had to take a couple of shots to get my teammates open and get them started.

We just weren't getting stops. Part of our offense is the transition game, and every time we were just taking it (from) out of bounds, it kind of slows that. We got kind of stagnant when they have the momentum. They were feeling it. They hit a few tough shots.

We kind of got stagnant and just didn't execute.

With traditional means of funding retirement shifting, life settlement offers a new opportunity to seniors seeking to utilize their hard-earned assets. As factors such as rising interest rates and stagnant equity markets continue to affect personal finances, life settlement provides an avenue to support the retirements of our client base.

The Pistons always had great defense, but there were times where this team really had some stagnant periods,

The zone tonight was a big problem. The zone slowed us down and made us stagnant and not as aggressive.

We've been a little stagnant in our half-court offense lately. We have to get better there.

We must be the worst 11-1 team you've seen. We're a little stagnant right now to be honest. We've had a lot of road games.

Victor got hurt, and Billy was in foul trouble so we had a few starters out. I thought we just didn't play very well to be quite honest. We were a little bit flat. Maybe we were worried about what happened to Victor, I'm not sure. We were just kind of stagnant on both ends.

We scored nine points. We just started shooting threes. We got stagnant and the ball wasn't going down and we didn't guard Ray Allen and it was just a stretch where it was worse than that.

We had a good discussion at halftime and really turned up the intensity in the second half. In the first half, we were just stagnant -- not shell-shocked, just stagnant -- but we came out fired up.

You can let things become stagnant and succumb to outside temptation and excitement, ... And this is definitely a film about thinking twice before you do that.

Rapid growth in 2003 and 2004 produced more production capacity than the market could digest and led to last year's stagnant performance.

Offensively, we kind of went stagnant in the second half. We got to the free-throw line and hit some big free throws. They started pressing man-to-man, and we sort of lost our cool for a little while.

Fifteen years ago the Tea Council was looking at a very stagnant market and they realized that something needed to be done to stimulate interest.

Demand continues to rise against a backdrop of stagnant supply. It's going to be a very interesting summer.

Same story in the third quarter, we had a tough third quarter, execution-wise and scoring-wise. They went on a 14-point run. I think we had a lead almost every game on this road trip in the first half. In the third quarter, I don't know where we go to. We go stagnant in the third quarter.

The only thing disappointing was how stagnant we got late in the first half against their zone. We overcame it though - Millsap started lighting it up and that really got us going.

We got kind of stagnant offensively. We didn't get any dribble penetration. When they went into that zone we got stagnant. And it was too much Dion Sims.

This is a fickle place. You see the same thing over and over and over. Art here seems stagnant to me. Especially some of these so-called 'Native artists' that are producing craft-type work. But that's the only way you can make any money at it.

This is a significant decline in confidence, ... Presumably the combination of higher interest rates and stagnant stock prices lies behind the moves, but the key point is that the steady rise in recent months has abruptly begun to reverse.

In stagnant or declining real estate markets you are seeing more foreclosures, ... You can pretty much draw a line through the middle of the country and see where the foreclosures are.

In stagnant or declining real estate markets you are seeing more foreclosures. You can pretty much draw a line through the middle of the country and see where the foreclosures are.

In the winter, areas of high pressure moving in create a stagnant environment where the air doesn't mix well, keeping the pollutants concentrated over the surface.

Consumers have stagnant real wages and they are getting hit with the shocks of higher energy prices. This is not a good combination for the overstretched consumer.

It took us a long time to penetrate their zone. We were too stagnant on offense.

I look at the slowest growth in a century. He inherited a growth of 4.7 to 4.8 percent, and now it's down to about 2.4 percent. We're going to pass a million bankruptcies for the first time in history. We've got stagnant wages,

Candace commented that she had a lot of shots that seemed to go halfway down and come back out. We had to grind it out, and I wasn't particularly happy with that, but was proud at the end. Our ball movement and player movement was stagnant at times.

The voters now have a choice between just the two of us and hopefully more of the truth will come out between now and then. I'm so dedicated to that department. I have proven leadership and I would hate to see it fall into the dormant, stagnant stage it was in for so many years before I took office.

They walk on the Lord's Path, and inspire others to walk on the Lord's Path as well. Bathing in a pool of holy water, they are washed clean of filth. But, by bathing in a stagnant pond, they are contaminated with even more filth.

I recognize that I have asked for a lot of dramatic change out of my staff and that change is hard for some, particularly those who have worked in a stagnant bureaucracy for years.

Sometimes you've got to win ugly. We didn't play well on our floor and I think that was because of our layoff. We got a little stagnant in the third quarter and that's something we haven't done. The third quarter has been our quarter all year.

The fourth quarter we went flat. We just didn't execute, we didn't move the ball, we got very stagnant and we were able to be guarded.

The German economy is on a longer-term path of recovery, helped by some gains in domestic demand. Germany may well be able to help lead the euro zone out of a period of fairly stagnant growth.

It just didn't seem like we were really right all night. I don't have a reason why that is. Even in the first quarter when we won it by two. We were stagnant at both ends and never really got anything sustained.

It seems like sometimes we get a little stagnant and pound the ball too much, and that's mainly my fault and Steve's (Francis) fault. Offensively, we've just got to get better.

We've been stagnant for too long. This will perk us up.

We look so stagnant on our power play. It looks like no one wants the puck.

We got stagnant on offense, stopped moving the ball.

We got stagnant with the ball. We got stuck in bad situations. They knew our tendencies and what we were going to do.

We got a bit stagnant with our zone offense and maybe we were a bit leg-weary. It would've been fun to get that one and get to the final game.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

It's frustrating to us because we have to see him like this. He's just stagnant now. It's like a bucket of water sitting there after the rain.

It's hard to win a road game when it's 42-20 at the free throw line. It really disrupted our flow and made us stagnant in our offense.

They're playing better now than when they had those guys. What they're doing right now, they're not as predictable. They have a lot more perimeter movement, a lot more player and ball movement. They're not as stagnant offensively when they're looking to just throw it into Jermaine and play off him, so they're more difficult to defend right now.

I do think that in an environment of basically stagnant military spending, four competitors rather than three are undesirable.

Health economists agree that not-for-profit hospitals need to be turning between a 4 to 6 percent margin in order to remain competitive and viable. We continue to be far from that mark here in New Jersey. Once again a confluence of pressures ranging from inadequate payments from governmental payers to a growing number of uninsured all contributed to the stagnant bottom lines.

The Legislature's low public-approval ratings reflect citizens' frustrations with the partisan bickering, inactivity, and stalemate at the highest levels of state government. As a result, the state remains stagnant and unrepresentative.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

America is stagnant. We've lost our jobs. We've lost our businesses. We're not making things anymore, relatively speaking. Our product is pouring in from China, pouring in from Vietnam, pouring in from all over the world.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.