Quotes About Intellectual Disability

#1. What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.

J. David Smith

#2. You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Dean Koontz

#3. Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

Jason Patric

#4. I've fallen pretty deep in...care with you.

Nora Roberts

#5. The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and yet, it is a reality which most people deny and try to escape from.

Wolf Wolfensberger

#6. It's always the ones we're not supposed to have who are the most irresistible.

E.M. Denning

#7. I was shocked. A dying word, "shocked." Few people have been able to use it well since Claude Rains so famously said, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," as he pocketed his winnings in Casablanca. But it's the only word for excitement and alarm of this intensity.

David Denby

#8. I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Aldous Huxley

#9. New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

Roger Von Oech