Quotes About Inhibition

Now she was frightened, terribly frightened, and had a wild desire to run away, to ring, to call, but she dared not move, lest she might disturb his repose.

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

illegal drugs are better for you than the legal stuff. How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral, or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?

I think when a musician loses their inhibition and dives deep into their soul, that's a prayer. It's so powerful that you will touch people whether it's good or bad.

The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

Fear's the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we're made to live.

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.

I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.

Thrice all that was fine and sweet in her had leapt forth, only to be scourged back into hiding. Poor heart inhibited!

I had said what I never meant to say, but what has been said cannot be unsaid, I enjoyed our silence, I was completely sober again, but all the same I had no idea what I was thinking, probably nothing.

Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

Conscious effort inhibits and 'jams' the automatic creative mechanism.

The most liberating of all thoughts is disregard or "disconcern" for what other people think. Famous mail-order impresario and entrepreneur J. Peterman wrote (in his autobiography Peterman Rides Again); "Once you realize that most people are keeping up appearances and putting on a show, their approval becomes less important." Excessive concern over what other people think inhibits personality more than any other factor.

I never had the nerve to go up to him. I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, Hello, Reverend Thomas, I would choke on the sin of mocking him.

But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.

I wasn't about to admit to him that I'd never had a boyfriend. You just don't go around saying things like that to totally hot guys, even if they're dead.