Top 100 Quotes About Paralyzed
#1. Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.
Douglas Rushkoff
#2. My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Bill Toomey
#4. The gamelan created in the listener a brain wave beyond all alphas and betas and thetas, a brain wave that paralyzed the normal channels of thought and forced new ones to grow outside them, in the untouched regions of the mind, like parallel blood vessels that form to accommodate a damaged heart.
Janet Fitch
#5. Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
Van Wyck Brooks
#6. I'm p-paralyzed with happiness. - She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#7. You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.
Jon Oringer
#8. A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
Alan Lightman
#9. Without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life. People whose basal ganglia are damaged by injury or disease often become mentally paralyzed. They have trouble performing basic activities, such as opening a door or deciding what to eat.
Charles Duhigg
#10. Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Steven Pressfield
#11. These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.
Thomas Hardy
#12. What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#13. It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#14. It was real sweet, except that he'd drugged me and ridden me to within an inch of my life, and I was still so high I was paralyzed and mute. But other than that, I guess it was pretty romantic.
Jordan Castillo Price
#15. I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.
Frederic Chopin
#16. I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.
Christopher Reeve
#17. The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
Paulo Coelho
#18. I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
Wes Craven
#19. And I know you need me in the next room over But I am stuck in here all paralyzed. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, "TEN THOUSAND WORDS
Colleen Hoover
#20. Tell him I went to the lavatory," Evie said with a roll of her eyes. "Men are pos-i-tute-ly paralyzed by the mention of females in lavatories.
Libba Bray
#22. have seen how the fear of becoming subject to God's revenge and punishment has paralyzed the mental and emotional lives of many people, independently of their age, religion, or life-style. This paralyzing fear of God is one of the great human tragedies.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#23. The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#24. The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.
Frederic Chopin
#25. When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.
George Barna
#26. His knuckles brushed against her skin and lightning cracked through him, left him paralyzed, rooted to the earth. His heart should not be making that sound.
Leigh Bardugo
#27. Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
Christopher Reeve
#28. A person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.
Ken Follett
#29. It.
Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#30. Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it," he said. "It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized.
Donna Tartt
#31. Shape without form, shade without colour, paralyzed force, gesture without motion ...
T. S. Eliot
#32. Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.
Gilberto Gil
#33. Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.
Leonard Mlodinow
#34. The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#36. Maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.
John Green
#37. Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Gelsey Kirkland
#38. Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
Simon Soloveychik
#39. But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
Tony Kushner
#40. To be paralyzed in the face of fear is only temporary; to never go beyond is crippling for life.
Judy Azar LeBlanc
#41. Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.
Jack Welch
#42. Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes. Be mobilized, not paralyzed.
Neale Donald Walsch
#43. And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.
Judith Guest
#44. Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear.
Greg Iles
#45. He leans in closer and closer until his breath caresses my mouth. I'm paralyzed. I swear he's going to kiss me. I swear I'm going to let him.
K.A. Tucker
#46. We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.
Danielle Rohr
#47. But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.
Melody Carlson
#48. Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
Fulton J. Sheen
#49. Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#50. Those eyes filled him with the paralyzed, hopeless horror that the hen feels for the weasel.
Stephen King
#51. I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
George C. Wallace
#52. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.
Rumi
#53. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
William Faulkner
#54. After the epidural was firmly in place, I double checked that we had a waiver on file that states we would own the hospital should my wife become paralyzed. If I was going to feed her mashed peas and wipe her ass until we die, I wanted to be rich.
Tara Sivec
#55. What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limited by our freedom, we are sovereign, not God. No, we are free, but God is even more free. This means that our freedom can never limit God's sovereignty.
R.C. Sproul
#56. We've created a device that has absolutely no limitations. There's no insurance company that can say 'no.' There's no hospital that can say 'no.' Anybody who's paralyzed now has access to draw or communicate using only their eyes.
Mick Ebeling
#57. Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
Camille Paglia
#58. A lot of smart people are prone to over-analysis and tend to become paralyzed by indecision
Reid Hoffman
#59. The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
Benjamin Carson
#60. Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.
David Pryce-Jones
#61. When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.
Joyce Kilmer
#62. An unexpected side effect of having enhanced memory; smart mice are sometimes paralyzed by fear.
Anonymous
#63. I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
David Guterson
#64. I have no brakes on ... analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
Anais Nin
#65. Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
Bill Hybels
#66. If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
Steven Pressfield
#68. [Spielberg] surrounds himself with great crew members who are at the top of their game and know their stuff. He motivates us by liking what we do, and he doesn't get paralyzed by the process or by new ideas. He embraces them and uses them.
Janusz Kaminski
#69. You need to be flagrantly insouciant.
You care way too much.
And because of that you will be paralyzed for life and miss out on everything.
Wendy Wunder
#70. Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better ... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.
William Zinsser
#71. They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening." Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of the uglier effects on morals of losing a major war.
Richard Rhodes
#72. President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.
Tasha Smith
#73. He rose grumpily, fell to the floor, and crawled. I looked at his exposed butt crack, a dark unkempt abyss that I was falling into. I was short of breath. I felt paralyzed. His asshole was a canyon. This was my 127 hours. I needed to chip away at the rock and get out.
Amy Schumer
#74. Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.
Greg Carlisle
#75. We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you're not doing something about it, you're doing something about it.
Chris Guillebeau
#76. Hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.
John Updike
#77. Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it ... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
Salman Rushdie
#78. When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed.
John Podhoretz
#79. The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.
Beth Moore
#80. Their dark silhouettes numbed the soft part of his brain, like a bee stinging and numbing a caterpillar, then laying eggs on the surface of its body. The bee larvae use the paralyzed caterpillar as a convenient source of food and devour it as soon as they're born.
Haruki Murakami
#81. My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.
Channing Tatum
#82. When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
Stephen Koch
#83. The Jew is contrary to our being ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
Joseph Goebbels
#84. I felt sick. I couldn't breathe. The idea of it totally freaked me out and I was paralyzed with anxiety. This overwhelming fear just kicked in out of nowhere, bringing with it a shitstorm of self-doubt
Zayn Malik
#85. Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
Teresa Of Avila
#86. He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.
Larry McMurtry
#87. Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.
Metta World Peace
#88. Self-esteem is mostly self-delusion, but it serves a purpose. You are biologically driven to think highly of yourself in order to avoid stagnation. If you were to stop and truly examine your faults and failures, you would become paralyzed by fear and doubt.
David McRaney
#89. There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.
Patrick McGrath
#90. The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse than the death itself.
Chris Cleave
#91. Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
Benjamin Carson
#92. What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who
Richard Ford
#93. We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.
Michael Graves
#94. I feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car
& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires
i'm torn between the compulsion to run
& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass
Koren Zailckas
#95. Our politics have become paralyzed and sometimes poisonous. Instead of protecting Americans' fundamental right to vote, the Supreme Court has protected corporations' right to buy elections.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#96. His love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.
Tim O'Brien
#97. In every organization everyone rises to the level at which they become paralyzed with fear.
Seth Godin
#98. I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.
Adrienne Rich
#99. Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.
Lucretia Mott
#100. I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
Lev Grossman
