Static State Quotes

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Nobody is going to move. Here is the story folks.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

No reality transforms itself.

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 that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

A finished person is a boring person.

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.

We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.