Crutches Quotes - Page 6

• Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Needs, Use

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Drinking, Wine

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Clarity, Praying

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• I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!

  Steve Farrar

  Christian, Needs, Hey

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• Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

  Ty Segall

  Use, Done, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Pain, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

  Iwan Rheon

  Real, Drama, Home

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Done, Kind

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

  Greg Walloch

  People, Perception, Overcoming

  "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

  Karch Kiraly

  Use, Want, Headings

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Feet, Two

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• One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Giving Up, Rain, Years

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• People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that didn't rely on offensive, edgy material because I think it was an exercise in trying to write without that. Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.

  Bo Burnham

  Writing, Kids, Exercise

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.

  Michael Coren

  Atheist, Giving, Accountability

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• A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Bridges, Humanity

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• If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

  Billy Sunday

  Devil, World, Want

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

  Joseph Joubert

  Journey, Hiking, Arguing

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• Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

  Charles Lamb

  Walking Sticks, Literature, Sticks

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• All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

  Edna O'Brien

  Self, Cells, People

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

  Peter Kay

  People, Disability

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• When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

  Antony Beevor

  Children, School, Disease

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• Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Past, Wind, Names

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days.

  Dana White

  Healing, Legs, Anderson Silva

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• Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Gun

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Hammer of God”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

  Joel Salatin

  Two, Feet, Rooms

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