Atrophy Quotes

42 quotes by 39 authors

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles… — Dag Hammarskjold
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child… — Victor Hugo
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can… — Jeffrey Kluger
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength,… — Jack LaLanne
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. — Ezra Pound
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I… — Terry Pratchett
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is… — Tom Robbins
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded… — Harold Brodkey
The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a… — Lisa Genova
War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it… — Martha Gellhorn
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so… — Thomas Bernhard
I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have… — Cassandra Clare
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could… — Jeffrey Tate
I prefer atrophy over exercise any day. — Karen Duffy
The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle… — S. Jay Olshansky
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. — Cate Blanchett
Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous Amity Anarchy Apathy Appease Asperity… — MrAwesome
We fall like bridges to the water smiling like nothing ever hurt It's just the fading to the darkness should I fight to keep breathing?… — Ghost Cat

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