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Quotes About Inhibited

Awkward is a state of being.
~ Alexandra Petri
So what happened when base desires and unworthy passions troubled the flesh of men and women inhibited from casual promiscuity, adultery, and divorce that keep us so healthy?
~ Wallace Stegner
Of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane : My nephew is nervous, fastidious and inhibited; my niece by marriage obstinate, energetic and independent. They are both possessed of a truly diabolical pride. Paul Austin Delagardie
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
at the core of whatever made this human atom pile smolder he wasn't cooking anymore. He was all bottled
~ Albert Goldman
Lydia tries her best not to consider the many words that will never come out of her mouth now, the sudden monster void of words she will never get to say.
~ Jeanine Cummins
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
~ Derek Walcott
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
~ Patrick deWitt
Un esclavo es aquel que no puede expresar su pensamiento.
~ Euripides
There are very tangible harms that come from manipulating people. In the United States, the public health response to Covid-19 has been inhibited by widespread disinformation about the existence of the virus or false claims about different kinds of treatment that do not work.
~ Christopher Wylie
I'm terribly, horribly shy.
~ Talulah Riley
By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.
~ Franz Kafka
There are thoughts we must not think.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I knew myself incapable of writing a line of a novel – by then I had written three or four – however long released from duty. Whatever inner processes are required for writing novels, so far as I myself was concerned, war now utterly inhibited. That was one of the many disagreeable aspects of war. It was not only physically inescapable, but morally inescapable too.
~ Anthony Powell
I was never the kind of person who voiced my impressions or my feelings. I never told anybody what I feel. I still don't.
~ Rekha
I was always a pretty shy kid.
~ Nicholas Galitzine
I've always been shy.
~ Miuccia Prada
I'm painfully shy.
~ Lindy Booth
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
The person who believes he is a subject is frank, open-minded, sincerely going ahead, facing the situation freely, and looking for ways to make things work and get things done. The person who believes she is an object is inhibited, pushed, driven, acting by command or intimidation, has a one-track mind, and is always looking for reasons things can't be done or why things can't work.
~ Michael Michalko
Emotional trauma of the living may overwhelm their inner minds to such an extent that their mental capabilities to communicate with souls are inhibited.
~ Michael Newton
He holds the most frightening and terrible of all of the Shards. Ponder on that for a time, you old reptile, and tell me if your insistence on nonintervention holds firm. Because I assure you, Rayse will not be similarly inhibited.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.
~ William Shakespeare
We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.
~ Sam Wanamaker