“We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. — Tom Platz Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment... — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc… — Dave Bidini Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“It made me wonder whether our ability and desire to interact with strangers is another muscle that risks atrophy in the smartphone… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death,… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image