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
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
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be… — Epictetus 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
“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
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
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's… — Anna Quindlen 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
How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing?… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife. — Sydney J. Harris 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
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released. — Dan Miller Copy Share Image