Top 40 Disabling Quotes
#1. There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.
Peter London
#2. By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.
Stella Young
#3. We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.
Marilynne Robinson
#4. Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
Ruth Rendell
#5. self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness!
If the public did not hold negative and stigmatizing attitudes in the first place, these would never have become internalized, causing people the painful and disabling experience of self-stigma.
Patrick W. Corrigan
#6. Looking at mental health problems the same way we look at other medical problems is factually correct - the best bet for reducing the disabling symptoms and the only way to lessen the stigma and blame that traditionally double or triple the pain.
Mark Vonnegut
#7. Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.
Sonia Choquette
#8. And if you have the emotional strength and/or support from family and friends, the damage is reduced or erased. We think of it as the stress (minor or disabling) that is part of life as a human.
Toni Morrison
#9. Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.
Guy Claxton
#10. I'd spent my life believing that people were, at heart, kind and good. This was what the world had shown me. [...] If humans could be this monstrous, maybe I'd had everything wrong. If thid was the world, I didn't want to live in it. That was the scariest and most disabling thought of all,
Amanda Lindhout
#11. If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.
Bertrand Russell
#12. What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
Jeffrey Kluger
#14. For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.
Roger Rosenblatt
#15. When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.
Paul Shepard
#16. There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.
John Hope Bryant
#17. The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
Derrick Bell
#18. The most common genetic disorder caused by inbreeding is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA causes the death of the cells in the spinal cord, and is often fatal or severely disabling.
Randall Munroe
#19. Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse.
Ruth Rendell
#20. Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.
Mark Udall
#21. It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.
Daniel L. Peterson
#22. Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].
Darrel Ray
#23. I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness.
Samuel Richardson
#24. Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Warren Adler
#25. The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.
George Gilder
#26. It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.
Lily James
#27. Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself ... If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.
Saint Francis De Sales
#28. Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
Honore De Balzac
#29. It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.
Big Sean
#31. If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
Angela Y. Davis
#32. A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.
W.S. Merwin
#33. Focus on doing one thing, get it right, then start working on something else.
Patrick Thean
#34. We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.
Curtis Hanson
#35. I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
Lady Gaga
#36. Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
#37. I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.
John Caudwell
#40. She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.
Markus Zusak
