Cripples Quotes - Page 2

• The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Desire, Admire, Please

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

  David D. Burns

  Anxiety, Nuisance, Uptight

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• the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Pain, Heart, Long

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• Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

  Winifred Holtby

  Teacher, Teaching, Government

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Long, People, Giving

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• The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.

  Ralph Peters

  Offending, Effort, Islam

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• It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

  David Ogilvy

  Ambition, People, Creative

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• He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

  Saint Augustine

  Doe, Littles, Way

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• I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

  Robert Wyatt

  Suicide, Want, Stuff

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts is to doom one's nation to a life of incuriosity, dullness, literalness and the worst kind of rank materialism.

  George Saunders

  Art, Mean, Kind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

  Harry Browne

  Government, Hands, Crutches

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• A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wife, Chance, Telling The Truth

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.

  Philip Sherrard

  Environmental, World, Stewardship

  Philip Sherrard (1992). “Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology”, Sophia Perennis

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• Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

  Epictetus

  Business, Character, Men

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.502, Lulu.com

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• Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.

  George Harrison

  Hurt, Shoes, Squash

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• Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

  T. B. Joshua

  Exercise, Thinking, Worry

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• The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Bullying, Reality, Views

  "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.

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• A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

  Harris L Coulter

  Drinking, Aqueducts, Autism

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.

  Uzo Aduba

  Mother, Fate, College

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• The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Taken, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.97, Penguin

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• People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

  Josephine Humphreys

  People, World, Should

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• People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Smart, Government, People

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• Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

  Devendra Banhart

  Grieving, Leaving, Crow

  "Song: 'Cripple Crow' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

  Laura Nyro

  Wall, Brain, Funky

  Song: Poverty Train, Album: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession

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• People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Badass, Bad Ass

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