Stagnant Quotes

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily -- certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay. - William Allen White

You're kind of locked in with your square footage. Very few companies stay stagnant. A condo is not very liquid. - Russ Sampson

You know, I never have been a stagnant kind of individual. I've been in the Senate 22 years. I'm still stimulated by the challenges that it offers, but here's a whole new arena in which to deal, whole new set of challenges, whole new kind of authority, a chance for growth, and how could I say no? - Edmund S. Muskie

You go stagnant, having our game against Needham cancelled took a little steam away. (Assistant coach Bill Riley) and I were concerned that they would be anxious, but they stayed focused. The last couple games we have played against Wellesley have gone extra innings, so it was a nice way to start. - Kathy Smelstor

With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains. - Jared Bernstein

With eyes wide shut we lay stagnant awake, safe for now in this wondrous place. - Unknown

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. - Ed Pastor

While all other sectors of the U.S. economy are growing, manufacturing employment is either stagnant or declining. We're losing the low-skilled, brawn-intensive manufacturing jobs to countries that offer abundant cheap labor, and the plants that remain tend to employ programmers and engineers that are skilled in today's technology. - Tom Dubin