Stasis Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. — Bono
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and… — Catherine Ponder
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes… — Gunter Grass
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. — Murray Bookchin
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is… — Mira Nair
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many.… — Robert Grudin
One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional… — La Monte Young
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside… — Robert Wright
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but… — Tom Robbins
When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all… — Ruben Papian
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the… — Dave Eggers
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real… — Saul Bellow
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. — William S. Burroughs
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick… — Margaret Atwood
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced… — David Foster Wallace
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state… — Said Sayrafiezadeh
There are (31,530,000) second in a year ,a (1,000) mil second in a second ,a million microsecond ,a billion nanosecond and the one constant connecting… — Ash Sweeney

Who Wrote These Stasis Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 Stasis Quotes as follows: