A Quote by Frank Herbert

The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

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Clear Evermore Leads Path Safe Stagnation

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Frank Herbert
American - Writer
October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Frank Herbert

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Frank Herbert

One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

Frederick Lenz

There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.

Noam Chomsky

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

Bill Bright

In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

Frederick Lenz

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Mencius

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Burton Richter

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Juvenal

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

John Shelby Spong

The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

Ian Tattersall

The best thing America can do to put the Middle East on a path that leads to more democracy, less terrorism, human rights and economic growth is to get the hell out of there while showing an absolute crystal clear determination to defend American interests with force whenever they are threatened.

Steve Hilton

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

Walter Scott

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

Jane Smiley

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