Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock. — Evan Harris Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
“I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into… — Anna Sheehan Copy Share Image
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
“Sardelle Terushan wakes from three hundred years in a mage stasis shelter, only to realize that she is the last of the… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“I have externalized the chaotic events of the day, and now I can return to my normal stasis.” — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“His theatre was the clouds, where no spectacle repeated itself. On land he was a foreigner. Land for him was stasis, and… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“Kenneth was a sitting duck. In fewer than three years he would kneel alone in this very room, on the exact spot… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects,… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright 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
Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world. — Youngme Moon Copy Share Image
When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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