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Cripple Quotes

What holds a person or a body back.

These quotes use "cripple" mostly as metaphor, examining how aging can leave an organ functionally limited, how social and economic conditions can cripple a community, and how Limitation can come from lies rather than physical harm.

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,...

Quotes by Abi Morgan

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.

Quotes by Wilhelm Ostwald

I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.

Quotes by Richard Hatch

We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.

Quotes by Rashida Tlaib

Crippled Quotes

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Quotes by Philip Hammond

Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to...

Quotes by Peggy Rathmann

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...

Martin Luther King Jr.

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...

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski

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.

Quotes by L. Neil Smith

Crippling Quotes

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.

Quotes by Jim Morrison

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as...

Quotes by Jim Dale

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Quotes by Jerry Lewis

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

Quotes by Jennifer Nettles

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Quotes by Ernest Bramah

Disability Quotes

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear...

Quotes by Eric Greitens

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.

Quotes by David Lehman

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...

Quotes by David D. Burns

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...

Quotes by Bobcat Goldthwait

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!'

Quotes by Arundhati Roy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is 'cripple' used literally or figuratively in this collection?
Mostly figuratively. Most quotes here use 'cripple' as a metaphor for limitation caused by aging, social conditions, or dishonesty, rather than describing literal physical disability.
Why do people search for cripple quotes?
People search for cripple quotes when writing about limitation, decline, or the ways social and personal conditions hold people back, since these quotes explore the word beyond its literal medical sense.
Is there a quote about aging and physical limitation?
Yes, one quote discusses how aging decline can leave a particular organ more limited than the body as a whole, describing a specific and gradual kind of physical change.
Does this page include a quote about social conditions and limitation?
Yes, one quote argues that economic conditions and social conditions can cripple people just as directly as physical harm, a concern echoed on the Limitation quotes page.
Is there a quote about lies causing harm in this collection?
Yes, one quote states that people cripple themselves with lies, describing how dishonesty can quietly limit a person even without any physical cause.

One quote takes a lighter, theatrical turn, describing a stage act where a limp was used deliberately for effect. See Disability quotes for more direct reflections on physical limitation.