Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired; Then I shall… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“When I was little, she thought, I wanted nothing except to stop travelling. I wanted time for each new thing, each new… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image