#atrophy

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

#atrophy #conqueror #gained #giving #goods

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #child #darkness #degradation #great

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

#begins #dance #departs #far #gets

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#bitter #cosmic #destroy #due #imagination

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#exercise #muscles #only #other #quickly

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#any #around #atrophy #day #energy

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#atrophy #finger #his #keeps #limbs