Cramps Quotes

• It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Movement

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

  Anthony Hope

  Ignorance, Poetry, Wish

  Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 22

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• The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Chains

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• A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Parent, Mind, Bondage

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.354

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• No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

  Steven Brust

  Knives, Style, Wizards

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Book of Athyra”, p.134, Penguin

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• Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

  John Millington Synge

  Sister, Giving, Lord

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.446, Wordsworth Editions

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• Your ignorance cramps my conversation

  Bob Hope

  Ignorance, Conversation

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• In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.

  Kevin Keegan

  Broken, Legs, Kevin

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• For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Night, Ems

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.173, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I have a lot more energy than I used to have. I sleep better. I like the way I look in my clothes better. I don’t cramp as much. I exercise better. I think my circulation has gotten better.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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• A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Sitting, Legs

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• ...and whenever I had menstral cramps, I could just pretend that Voldemort was close.

  Jenny Lawson

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• Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stress, Feelings, Lines

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• Often enough it is little that can be done in an old country, where life is ruled by fixed and imperious traditions; while much may be done where all is yet fluid, and where, if religion is sometimes unprotected and unrecognised, she is not embarrassed by influences which deaden or cramp her best energies at home.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Country, Home, Energy

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• Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Years, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.434

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• I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stuff, Eras, Sentimental

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.7, Crown Archetype

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• To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Believe, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.234

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• At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?

  Kevin Keegan

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

  May Sarton

  Children, Believe, Long

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Army, Criminals, Answers

  "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo". "El Universal" Newspaper, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.

  Roger Federer

  Clever, Hard Work, Years

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• Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.

  J. Chapman

  Life, Christian, Prayer

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• I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

  Clinton Morrison

  Football, Team, Three

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• Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt with any kind of emotional situation or conflict by doing something concrete and specific. Discussion of cramps and heavy flow at the breakfast table? He was up and out the door to change oil on one of our cars. Coming home in tears for reasons you just didn't want to discuss? He'd go make you a grilled cheese, which he'd probably end up eating. Family crisis brewing in a public place? Bags. Get the bags.

  Sarah Dessen

  Father, Home, Emotional

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.44, Penguin

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• All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Talent, Capacity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.135, A&C Black

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