Paralysed Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a… — Adrienne Rich
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is… — Guillaume Faye
Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and… — Isabel Lucas
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not. — Paulo Coelho
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?… — Daphne du Maurier
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above… — Unknown Author
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of… — R. H. Tawney
If youâ€™re sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, youâ€™ll just become paralysed. — Steven Soderbergh
My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries.… — Gary Lineker
I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those… — Susan Faludi
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. — Theodor Adorno
In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic.… — Karl Marx
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can… — Bertrand Russell
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there… — Romola Garai
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence… — Unknown Author
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against oneâ€™s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others… — Paulo Coelho
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow… — Margaret Atwood

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