#paralyzed

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

— John Rawls

#constant #finance #function #money #paralyzed

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

— David Guterson

#became #block #i #paralyzed #writer

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

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#anything #how #paralyzed #realize #time

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

#children #frightened #had #i #isolated

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

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#being #days #different #different things #done

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

— Christopher Reeve

#around #bodies #full #i #i am

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

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

— Bill Toomey

#been #did #family #hand #knew