Quotes About Stunting

#1. Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project. Individualism is self-ism with a swagger. The individualist is the person who is convinced that he or she can serve God without dealing with God.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.

Stephen Richards

#3. (The North Korean army had to lower its height requirement from five feet three in the early 1990s because of the stunting of the younger generation.)

Barbara Demick

#4. Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.

Ariel Garten

#5. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

#6. But as nothing, western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to westernize amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting, leading families like mine, otherwise glad of republican progress, to furnish their houses like museums.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.

Sigmund Freud

#8. The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

Bernard Iddings Bell

#9. Sing 'em to remember.
Sing 'em because you remember.

Adrienne Kress

#10. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Marilyn Monroe

#11. Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination.

Rajasaraswathii

#12. We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

George W. Sears

#13. Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

J.A. Konrath

#14. There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.

Peter McWilliams

#15. The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#16. I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#17. I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.

John Caudwell

#18. You own me, Sonya, own every fucking part of me, and that will never change.

Jenika Snow

#19. That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Alice Childress

#20. Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

Kevin McCarthy

#21. Moments later, from the orphanage roof, a creature made of Christmas nightmares and holding a bulging sack that looked to hold doll-shaped toys made its escape through the silhouette of the city, not to be seen for another year.

Sebastian Gregory

#22. Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Andrew Greeley