Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions…A ny religion that professes to be concerned with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself.… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed.… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy,… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
I mean, I understand that because they're disadvantaged that they deserve their own parking spots, but do they have to make them… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“You know what I mean. Is it true the folk hereabouts”—he pointed to the land ahead—“are cripples? Missing half their hindquarters?” “The… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble… — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
One of President Obama's winning points last night was about how sanctions against Iran are crippling their economy. And believe me, if… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage.… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
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… — Sybil Thorndike Copy Share Image
Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image