All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game. — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything. — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
“The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie. — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
“I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.” — Sarah Todd Hammer Copy Share Image
“(There are many ways to be crippled, I’ve learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.)” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts… — Shaka Copy Share Image
“When someone says something, they automatically know what to say back. But for me it's as if the pathway between my brain… — Robin Roe Copy Share Image
Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
“He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's command, but neither had he passionately… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
“Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.” — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues. — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cale and I aren't all that different… His paralysis is physical. Mine is emotional. And actually, it's not always about losing anything.… — Annie Arcane Copy Share Image
But one thing is certain-in the case of nutrition and health, the science can be confusing and can lead to “paralysis by… — Melissa Hartwig Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning, and I couldn't move my arm. It was the oddest thing, the paralysis. I called up a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed… — Sarah Todd Hammer Copy Share Image
The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I suppose the daily disciplines are just a reflection of the qualities of my inner world - a mixture of paralysis and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
“People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but… — Jennifer Starzec Copy Share Image
If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails… — Anthony H. Cordesman Copy Share Image
When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image