A Quote by Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. — © Alan Arkin
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.
It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans!
In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.
When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.
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