- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 try new things.
- Damn
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
- Stay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020