Atrophy Quotes: top 30 famous quotes about Atrophy

Atrophy Quotes & Sayings

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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr

Ability atrophies through lack of exercise. — Glenda Jackson

We have not many wills, but only one
it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether. — Arthur Miller

My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy. — George A. Romero

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies. — George Will

Dependency purges people of their dreams, makes their spirit atrophy, and enslaves them to a lifetime of mediocrity. — Frank Sonnenberg

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance ... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. — Ezra Pound

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. — Tom Platz

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Atrophy of feeling creates criminals. — Anais Nin

Freedom is like a muscle of the human spirit; it tends to atrophy and diminish with neglect, but grows and becomes stronger from regular use" (p.49). — Tom Malleson

As we get older the muscle structure tends to atrophy at a faster and faster rate. The ideal remedy for this is bodybuilding. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. — Cate Blanchett

made me wonder whether our ability and desire to interact with strangers is another muscle that risks atrophy in the smartphone world. — Aziz Ansari

Curiosity, imagination, inventiveness expand with use, like muscles,and atrophy with neglect. — Paul Gruchow

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. — Dag Hammarskjold

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used. — Mortimer J. Adler

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy? — T.C. Boyle

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life. — Erich Fromm

They spoke of age and decay. Of atrophy and ruin. Of the inevitability of loss and the futility of hope. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment. — Stewart Udall

Once the body has atrophied, you will become vulnerable to many conditions. — Steven Magee

Cold silence has a tendency to
atrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers — Maynard James Keenan

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams

Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses.. — Jim Morrison

I prefer atrophy over exercise any day. — Karen Duffy

Skepticism ... is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle