Cramps Quotes

• It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Movement

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

  Anthony Hope

  Ignorance, Poetry, Wish

  Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 22

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• No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

  Steven Brust

  Knives, Style, Wizards

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Book of Athyra”, p.134, Penguin

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• Your ignorance cramps my conversation

  Bob Hope

  Ignorance, Conversation

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• A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Parent, Mind, Bondage

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.354

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• Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

  John Millington Synge

  Sister, Giving, Lord

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.446, Wordsworth Editions

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• The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Chains

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• In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.

  Kevin Keegan

  Broken, Legs, Kevin

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• For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Night, Ems

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.173, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I have a lot more energy than I used to have. I sleep better. I like the way I look in my clothes better. I don’t cramp as much. I exercise better. I think my circulation has gotten better.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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• A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Sitting, Legs

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• ...and whenever I had menstral cramps, I could just pretend that Voldemort was close.

  Jenny Lawson

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• Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stress, Feelings, Lines

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.

  J. Chapman

  Life, Christian, Prayer

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• I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.

  Roger Federer

  Clever, Hard Work, Years

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• I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

  Clinton Morrison

  Football, Team, Three

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• I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

  Esi Edugyan

  Exercise, Mercy, Muscles

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan

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• All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Talent, Capacity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.135, A&C Black

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• I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stuff, Eras, Sentimental

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.7, Crown Archetype

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• wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

  Lucille Clifton

  Believe, Son, Thinking

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?

  Kevin Keegan

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

  David Nicholls

  Sex, Aunt, Cuddling

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Running, Queens, Pain

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• I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hate, Body, Treachery

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.

  Gail Carriger

  Eye, Water, Gowns

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