Donald Trump Quotes

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

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

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still.

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.

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.

Many a false step is made standing still.

They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.

Nobody wants to change.

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

Silence is the language of inertia.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

Mental inertia is death.

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

We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about