Hobble Quotes

#1. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Siri Hustvedt

#2. For it is not requisite that a woman should hobble faster than she has strength!

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#3. Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

H.L. Mencken

#4. This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?

Thomas Hardy

#5. I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.

S.A. Tawks

#6. The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.

Robin Hobb

#7. As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel
Meeting people of different kinds,
Remember that being handicapped
Is only a state of mind

Stephen Cosgrove

#8. And you can use that bad experience as a crutch to hobble around on for the rest of your life, or you can get over it.

Carolyn Brown

#9. He stood and watched his friend hobble around the house, felt the cold claw of loneliness reach out and touch him with icy fingers. A terrible loneliness. The loneliness of age - of age and the outdated.

Clifford D. Simak

#10. There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#11. The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.

Leonard Read

#12. Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

Mason Cooley

#13. Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?

Shannon Hale

#14. I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

Jazz Feylynn

#15. The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized government competition, oppressive taxation, or outright expropriation.

Henry Hazlitt

#16. I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

Richard Harris Barham

#17. They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

Malcolm Wilson

#18. There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.

Tommy Lee

#19. A dehoy who was terribly hobble,
Cast only stones that were cobble
And bats that were ding,
From a shot that was sling,
But never hit inks that were bobble.

James Thurber

#20. White men project onto the Negro the primitive drives, the archaic powers, the uncontrolled instincts that they do not want to admit in themselves, of which they are unconscious, and that they therefore designate as the corresponding qualities of other people.

C. G. Jung

#21. (how I wish you were fear)

Stephen King

#22. The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: 'I'm a fraud! Oh god, they're on to me! I'm a fraud!

Sheryl Sandberg

#23. Readers the world over are always so let down that Hogwarts and Narnia and Middle Earth don't exist, that they will never be able to visit their favorite fictional places.

E. Lorn

#24. If you 're serious about getting it on again, be sure to give me some advance notice, so I can grab my appointment calendar and block out three minutes.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#25. Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

Bryant McGill

#26. She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don't care

William Gaddis

#27. I must be very complex, judging by the number of days determined to define me.

Spuds Crawford

#28. If you have the tendency to always fuck up, try to switch it up and fuck down.

Anthony Liccione

#29. Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Kate Chopin

#30. Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.

Mustafa Mahmud

#31. CUSTOMER: You know how they say that if you gave a thousand monkeys typewriters, then they'd eventually churn out really good writing? BOOKSELLER: ... yes. CUSTOMER: Well, do you have any books by those monkeys? BOOKSELLER: ...

Jen Campbell

#32. I hate that door," continued Marvin. "I'm not getting you down at all, am I?

Douglas Adams

#33. The nation's young men have
been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a whole
generation of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun and
don't need to wash anyone else's socks.

Helen Fielding