Paralysis Quotes

94 quotes by 89 authors

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. — Arthur Helps
The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to… — Naveen Jain
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. — Annie Lennox
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more… — Joyce Carol Oates
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. — Susan Orlean
All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep… — Christopher Reeve
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis. — Christopher Reeve
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that… — Stendhal
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS. — Winston Churchill
Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. — H P Lovecraft
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis… — Tim O'Brien
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers… — BrenÃ© Brown
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 shattering, ceaseless wit… — Novalis
I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to… — W.N.P. Barbellion
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. — Anton Chekhov
Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents.… — Rick Riordan
All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game. — Paula McLain

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