Cripples Quotes

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  Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

  Jim Morrison

  Sex, Truth, Honesty

  "Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.

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• And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Broken, Spots

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.213, Bantam

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• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Witty, Humorous, Teaching

  "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, June 18, 1975.

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• Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

  Jerry Lewis

  House, Want, Pity

  "CBS Sunday Morning", May 20, 2001.

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• I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

  Jim Dale

  Kids, Boys, Saws

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

  Ernest Bramah

  Talking, Feet, Conversation

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.194, e-artnow

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• If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Team, Students, Online

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• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aging, Periods, Certain

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• In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

  Louise Brooks

  Dance, Dream, Crippled

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• The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

  Abraham Maslow

  Philosophy, Yield, Psychology

  Carl Ransom Rogers, Abraham Harold Maslow (1984). “American politics and humanistic psychology”, Saybrook Pub

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• The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Eye, Responsibility

  "Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing". Book by Margaret Kaminski, 1975.

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• The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, Generations, Financial

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2013

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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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• From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

  Blaise Pascal

  Should Have, Mind, Doe

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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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• Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Angel, Years, Weather

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Scorpia”, p.207, Penguin

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• They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

  Malcolm X

  Wings, Bird, Flying

  "The Egyptian Gazette" Newspaper, September 17, 1964.

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• It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Boys, Mad, Giants

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.899, Bantam

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• ...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Answers, Trumpets

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). “Five novels”

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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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• He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wine, Feelings, Frogs

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press

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• Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Wise, Feet, Immaturity

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• I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

  Margaret Atwood

  Coward, Saint, Wounds

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

  Dan Brown

  War, Faster

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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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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