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I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. -- GG Allin
Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. -- King Hussein I
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. -- John Sterling
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart. -- Anna Julia Cooper
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. -- Terri Clark
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. -- John Mason Good
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas. -- Napoleon Hill
If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid. -- Pope Francis
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. -- Orison S. Marden
Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow. -- Art Blakey
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls. -- Dan Simmons
Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet. -- Warsan Shire
But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed. -- John Stuart Mill
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. -- Johnny Cash
Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you. -- Anita Moorjani
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling. -- A. B. Simpson
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant. -- Paulo Coelho
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. -- Herbert Read
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. -- John Sununu
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism. -- Romola Garai
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. -- John Mason Good
You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant. -- Katrina Kaif
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant. -- Craig Charles
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one. -- Robert Reich
I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately. -- Will Champlin
I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant. -- Sasha Grey
There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf. -- Leslie Bibb
The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population. -- Susan Oliver
Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking. -- Dennis Miller
I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone. -- Vanessa Hudgens
I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant. -- Harvey Pekar
I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more. -- Frankie Valli
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted. -- James Fallows
Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it. -- Phylicia Rashad
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. -- Peter Blair Henry
For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying. -- Chris Hardwick
I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. -- Anthony Weiner
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. -- John French Sloan
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae. -- Ricardo Semler
A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant. -- Ming-Dao Deng
I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant. -- Sally Quinn
The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness -- Rajneesh
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. -- Ed Pastor
A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.... -- Alan Cohen
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. -- Hosea Ballou
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Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water. -- James Carville
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water. -- Chanakya
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Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. -- Aleister Crowley
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! -- August Strindberg
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. -- Confucius
When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant. -- Greg Noonan
I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale. -- Benjamin Stone
If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water. -- Kate Tempest
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant. -- Peter Diamandis
If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments. -- Benjamin Carson
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. -- William Wordsworth
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. -- Agatha Christie
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. -- James Wright
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success. -- Michael Arndt
A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans. -- Michael Lewis
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank. -- Paulo Coelho
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body. -- Deborah King
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side. -- Casey Stengel
The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person. -- Joel Osteen
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring. -- Beth Johnson
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents. -- Charles Rangel
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal. -- George Agnew Reid
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. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture. -- Marianne Williamson
As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream. -- Joseph Pilates
We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans. -- Van Jones
Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more. -- Rajneesh
The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority -- Janet Yellen
I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant. -- Jonathan Nolan
Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency. -- Paul Ryan
I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant. -- Nick Antosca
Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck. -- John Boehner
Love is a process, either growing or shrinking, but never stagnant. My love for you was David, and now it is Goliath. Also, my love for you was Goliath, and now it is David. -- Jarod Kintz
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. -- Samuel Johnson
It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy. -- Gerard Way
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume. -- Johannes Brahms

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