Quotes About Paralysis

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

you enter a state of affairs in which neither the old ways nor the new ways work satisfactorily. People are caught between the demands of conflicting systems and end up immobilized

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Indian economy is suffering from policy paralysis and lack of optimism. I am confident that with right kind of decisions, we can once again generate hope and confidence and turnaround our economy.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

I'm fine, considering I can't walk anymore, " Pam replied, a sarcastic edge in her voice. "You look like your bringing news. What is it this time, I'm blind?

There were so many viciously sarcastic ways to respond, Jaden's brain was temporarily paralyzed due to witty comeback overload.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Lost is not a place. It's a soul in paralysis... waiting to feel moved.

She did not want to be moved or bothered or distracted ('No, don't do anything yet, don't do anything, just wait'), nor did she want voices or movement around her, as if she were so full of foreboding that she preferred everything about her to be in a state of utter paralysis and preferred to remain on the situation and posture that at least allowed her to go on living rather than risk any variation, however minimal, that might upset the temporary and precious stability.

A life had taken shape, after my arrest: for years, I had let it sprout, joyously absurd, naive and shameless. In that life you were never carried off, petted, saved; you stood up straight, in the dark cages of the paddy wagon, or sat up on the hard wooden slats. But in that life, all the same, you could get your kicks in secret in the certainty of each day's routine. My new freedom imprisons and paralyzes me.

We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.

We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.