Words matter. These are the best Cripple Quotes from famous people such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Garry Hynes, Tracy Morgan, Duff McKagan, Stella Young, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
The odd thing about ‘Cripple of Inishmaan’ is it’s never actually been performed on the island.
My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.
Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.
People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word ‘cripple,’ and they hear a word you’re not allowed to say anymore.
I’ve learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.
Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.
We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.
Emptiness will always cripple me.
Reduced investment in U.S. diplomatic efforts could cripple our ability to prevent and respond to national security threats abroad – including infectious diseases and terror threats.
When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don’t have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it’s just going to shut everything down. That’s not going to help us as an economy.
Practically everybody knows what it’s like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
Because I’m no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I’m no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don’t bruise easily any more.
I’m not going to be negative and say it’s fine to lose three or four on the bounce, of course not, but if it happens, we have to cope with it. I’ve been involved in relegated teams and they are the ones where a few defeats cripple you and you allow it to become a spiral.
I’m a social cripple in a cocktail party. My idea of a nightmare is people standing very elegantly dressed in a room with a drink in their hand. I’m just like, ‘Urghh!’
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
I’m always dealing with this sadness. I don’t want to be Morrissey or anything, but it is a thing I deal with it. Every day, when I wake up, I have to make a decision to fight this depression. That sounds horrible but I’m fine with it; it’s who I am; it’s my life. I try not to let it cripple me.
I had a mild case of polio as a child. Not enough to cripple me, but it was polio. I still have an atrophy on the right side of my back.
People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I’ve never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.
Was I afraid before every game I played? Did I throw up before kickoff? You bet. But I didn’t let that fear cripple me and keep me in the locker room.
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women’s Singles tennis champion in college.
Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
The 9/11 attack was symbolic. It was not designed to cripple us economically or militarily, at least not directly. It was designed to provoke a reaction.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
I write an actual script rather quickly – a draft will take me two weeks – but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don’t re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I’ll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.
It’s difficult wherever I go. They don’t build anything for big people. They have everything for blind people, for cripple people, for some other people, but not for big people.
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there’s a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn’t help him. She says, I don’t want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I’ve fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
Pity? You don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.
I took a break from theater after ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I’d been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.
