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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
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. -- T. S. Eliot
I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope. -- Maria Bamford
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything. -- Katharine Butler Hathaway
Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am. -- Christopher Reeve
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up. -- Larry Flynt
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. -- Bill Toomey
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame. -- Brene Brown
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. -- John Rawls
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
The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb. -- Frederic Chopin
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
Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed. -- Frank Rich
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
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. -- Michael Bloomberg
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
I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia. -- Francine Prose
There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them. -- Eli Roth
I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life. -- Charles B. Rangel
Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress. -- Gabrielle Giffords
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
The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically. -- RomÃ©o Dallaire
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. -- Amy Tan
It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is. -- Annette Bening
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. -- Chris Christie
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
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. -- Marian Wright Edelman
People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be your last moment. I was the kind of guy who would never talk to my wife on game day. Now I'm the guy who's like, 'I love you.' I want my children to know I love them because I don't know what's going to happen out there. -- Troy Polamalu
Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts. -- Arthur C. Clarke
God gifted a Zoo; with a paralyzed care taker. -- Durgesh Satpathy
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. -- David Guterson
maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. -- John Green
Never be paralyzed by fear, just by falling off a cliff -- Josh Stern
Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up -- Charles Krauthammer
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed. -- Teresa of Avila
The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed. -- Toni Morrison
I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life. -- Anais Nin
You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?" -- Miriam Shor
My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles. -- Andrew Johnson
The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk. -- Beth Moore
I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons. -- Christopher Reeve
I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope. -- Maria Bamford
But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. -- Moby
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world. -- Mark Victor Hansen
If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do. -- Steven Pressfield
Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me. -- Metta World Peace
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed. -- Jack Welch
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do. -- Benjamin Carson
HÃ¼zÃ¼n does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. -- Orhan Pamuk
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends. -- David Pryce-Jones
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze. -- Richard Bode
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame. -- Brene Brown
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear. -- Benjamin Carson
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism. -- Paulo Coelho
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. -- Rumi
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
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
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Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome. -- Rainbow Rowell
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The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment. -- Mira Grant
With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/ -- Howard Tayler
I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. -- Sylvia Plath
Don't allow us, Father, as the end draws near to be paralyzed in waiting for a complicated scheme or fancy equipment. WE ARE THE EQUIPTMENT. -- Brian Eshleman
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
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
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
Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left. -- W Mitchell
I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page. -- Terry Tempest Williams
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
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
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
A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability. -- Richard Holbrooke
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed -- Alan Watts
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed -- Alan Watts
...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
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
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. -- Francis Ford Coppola
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. -- Bertrand Russell
Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception. -- Lotte Lehmann
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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go. -- David Levithan
I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it. -- Rush Limbaugh
I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it. -- Rush Limbaugh
The world is changing so rapidly, and many people are paralyzed with fear and anxiety about the future. The angels can guide us through these changes, and give us solid guidance that we can trust. -- Doreen Virtue

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