The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

— Octavio Paz

“Beauty is a handcuff and a leg iron; it captures you and it immobilizes you!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

— Wayne Dyer

Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you…

— Wayne Dyer

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

— Audre Lorde

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are…

— Polybius

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly…

— George W. Bush

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

— Anonymous

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

— Francois Rabelais

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

— Charles Darwin

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

— Winston Churchill

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

— H. W. Brands