Top 239 Paralyzed Quotes & Sayings

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

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Hubble is unique. Nothing else can do what it can do. Once it's gone, we're going to be paralyzed.

You don't have to sever your spinal cord to be paralyzed for life. You could just touch it and be paralyzed for life.

People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

I've never had stage fright, that would mean you were paralyzed like a rabbit in headlights and you wouldn't be able to speak or move.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity.

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

We have had people for so many generations dumbed down, literally dumbed down, who are now in positions of awesome and extreme power with influence over others, that we're paralyzed. And, if we're not paralyzed, we are backtracking and moving backwards. We are actually regressing, I should say, from magnificent progress that we as a nation and a culture and society have taken over hundreds of years.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

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

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

After being temporarily paralyzed, it puts a lot of things in perspective.

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.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.

So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"

I'm not paralyzed with fear, but I realize it is important to live as if there's no tomorrow, always trying to maintain your integrity and have no regrets.

I was paralyzed for so long by people's opinions. I would be devastated to the point where I didn't know if I could make it through the day.

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.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

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.

McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.

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.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

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.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

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.