Top 71 Quotes About Cripples: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Cripples

#1. We are all are cripples in some way.
[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]

#2. Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.

Rachael Allen

#3. Why should you want to help him?" "Your brother Jon asked it of me. And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things." Tyrion Lannister placed a hand over his heart and grinned. The

George R R Martin

#4. We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.

Don Winslow

#5. Wall Street does not release its disciples cost-free. First it makes sure they're mental and emotional cripples, and then lets them decide if they still want to leave.

Katya G. Cohen

#6. We are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. When we lose faith in our officers of the law, it harms all of as. It cripples our criminal justice system. It threatens the most vulnerable parts of our community. It allows money and power to subvert justice.

Rob Thomas

#8. Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

Cory Booker

#9. A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

F. Sionil Jose

#10. Analysis paralysis is an epidemic that cripples countless dreams and great ideas. Be swift, decisive, and always move forward!

Matthew Loop

#11. Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My

Maya Angelou

#12. Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

Harry Browne

#13. Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

Mordecai Richler

#14. Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

Ahmed Zewail

#15. You know what I mean. Is it true the folk hereabouts" - he pointed to the land ahead - "are cripples? Missing half their hindquarters?"
"The fauns? Cripples?" I laughed. "By the gods who made them, no!

Harry Turtledove

#16. We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

Sybil Thorndike

#17. Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan.

Jonathan Lethem

#18. It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

David Ogilvy

#19. I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Bob Hoskins

#20. Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket.

Nicole McKay

#21. No matter how fierce the enemy seems
when fear cripples us, anger enrages us, or selfishness possesses us; when adversity crushes us, opposition hounds us, or temptation plagues us
God is greater.

Katy Kauffman

#22. Your mistake," Ng says, "is that you think that all mechanically assisted
organisms
like me
are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than we
were before.

Neal Stephenson

#23. The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.

Laura Wiess

#24. The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#25. Fear in its most wicked, powerful form cripples our souls and warps the very fabric of our true hearts.

Stasi Eldredge

#26. How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

Alice James

#27. I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples, bastards and broken things.

George R R Martin

#28. On his day of demobilization a lugubrious one-armed, one-eyed brigadier wished him well and then added, apropos of nothing, Mark my words, Moutier, a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

Lee Child

#29. Support cripples ability, pity smothers courage,
But criticism glistens rusted brilliancy.

Akshmala Sharma

#30. 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

#31. I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

Anna Quindlen

#32. People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#33. It is the waiting that cripples.

Hannah Kent

#34. The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Valerie Solanas

#35. The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

Peter Kreeft

#36. The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?

Bill Hicks

#37. People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

Josephine Humphreys

#38. Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

Dan Brown

#39. We are fed lies because believing them makes us weak, vulnerable, malleable. We depend on others for our food, health, sustenance. This cripples us. Creates cowards of our people. Slaves of our children. It's time for us to fight back.

Tahereh Mafi

#40. 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

#41. The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

Maggie Nelson

#42. In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#43. Uncertainty cripples any serious and firm resolve and results in opinions swaying from one side to the other, leaving any decision that is made weak and half done, even when it comes to the most essential measures of self-preservation.

Adolf Hitler

#44. This skin cripples me. It always has. - Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

Jeanette Lynes

#45. Until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

George Santayana

#46. People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

Michael Harrington

#47. Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Vladimir Nabokov

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

John Gallagher Jr.

#50. I don't know how to protect you. The world's fucked up, and I feel like we're cripples limping through it together.

Tam Linsey

#51. Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom of will, it is difficult for any man of any class to rebel against patriarchy, to be disloyal to the patriarchal parent, be that parent female or male.

Bell Hooks

#52. 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

#53. You don't need my kind of strength. A simple look from you alone cripples ,e. I am at your mercy.
-Marcus

Courtney Allison Moulton

#54. Love cuts deeper than the sharpest blade, cripples more than shattered bones, and leaves scars that can never fade.

Jeaniene Frost

#55. I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [ ... ] Fear implies respect.

Dean Koontz

#56. There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

Frederick Lenz

#57. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.

Carla H. Krueger

#58. I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

Diane Keaton

#59. Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.

Wilhelm Reich

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

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#61. The gospel of becoming a good believer cripples believers

Sunday Adelaja

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

George R R Martin

#63. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Charles R. Swindoll

#64. The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.

Ralph Peters

#65. The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#66. If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have yet to stumble across it.

Daniel Polansky