Paralytic Quotes

#1. In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

Justin Martyr

#2. An old man in poor health, like my rival, could not be expected to be so impressively feeble as a young actor in the prime of life. You see, he really had paralysis, and working within this definite limitation, he couldn't be so jolly paralytic as I was.

Anonymous

#3. If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Billie Holiday

#4. When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

Denis Thatcher

#5. Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Edmund Burke

#6. One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.

Jules Verne

#7. Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

Gregory Bateson

#8. Inside I am really bursting with boyish merriment; but I acted the paralytic Professor so well, that now I can't leave off.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. Bitterness is a paralytic.
Love is a much more serious motivator.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

Mother Teresa

#11. Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. Discipline must come through liberty ... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

#13. There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Max Lerner

#14. Well, we're all victims of our own gene pool. Unfortunately, someone must have peed in yours. - Walter Bishop, "Fringe" (TV)

J.J. Abrams

#15. I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave,
to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

DJ Quik

#16. People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Thomas Hardy

#17. None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

Elizabeth Keckley

#18. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#19. The light in your soul is far greater than the darkness. Shine your light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be.

Michelle Paver

#21. Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Elizabeth Bishop