Hamstrung Quotes

#1. As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

Christopher Moore

#2. Unlike white commentators, who were hamstrung by the fear that they would be labeled racist, I could voice my criticisms of the feudal, religious, and repressive mechanisms that were holding back women from Muslim communities.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#3. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?

Ray Bradbury

#4. If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.

Damon Lindelof

#5. Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.

Timothy Noah

#6. Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

Cate Blanchett

#7. There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

Trey Gowdy

#8. When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.

Russell Brand

#9. Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of.

Tina Brown

#10. I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Henry Rollins

#11. The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

Ben Bernanke

#12. The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.

Lorna Sage

#13. If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

Andy Richter

#14. If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Ben Folds

#15. Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

Ma Jun

#16. It is always thus. The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.

Christopher Paolini

#17. The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.

Eminem

#18. if we do not venture somebody else will;

Jane Austen

#19. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Charles Buxton

#20. Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Tacitus

#21. Open the door and close the heaven, because we stay here on earth.
Jan Jansne

Jan Jansen

#22. Tell me, what's the most valuable thing anyone can ever have? It's your life, isn't it? But you can hold on to it as tightly as you can for every waking hour, and you'll still have to let it go when the time comes, won't you?

Ge Fei

#23. Doubtless we cannot see that other higher Spaceland now, because we have no eye in our stomachs.

Edwin A. Abbott

#24. Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms.

Edward Hirsch

#25. Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

Josh Turner

#27. The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Pete Seeger

#28. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.

Jane Roberts

#29. The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

Haley Barbour