Crippling Quotes

77 Crippling quotes by 71 unique authors

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All… — Shashi Tharoor
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even… — Jay-Z
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn
Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling… — John Steinbeck
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place,… — Edward Said
The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life,… — Mark Twain
What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person,… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your body… — Michael Specter
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In… — Joseph Prince
Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and could opt for… — Richard Engel
I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. — Peter Diamandis
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their… — Ha-Joon Chang
I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling. — Marilynne Robinson
Fear, Ive learned can be a crippling force, but when you arm yourself with knowledge and experience, it begins to fade. — Senoraroy
I would take away my fear of nude dorfs. I feel like I'm missing out on allot of life experiences. Just with this crippling fear… — MattG124
The education system is financially crippling the economy that it's designed to serve. — Steve Fowler
War should always be the absolute last resort. That's why these crippling sanctions, which Bibi Netanyahu says we should continue, which, if I'm not mistaken,… — Joe Biden
It's incredible. Look, imagine had we let the Republican Congress work out the sanctions. You think there's any possibility the entire world would have joined… — Joe Biden
We have put in the toughest, most crippling sanctions ever. — Barack Obama

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