Crutches Quotes - Page 5

• Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

  A. B. Simpson

  Missionary, Might, Ghost

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• Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Strong

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• To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

  Ray Comfort

  Elephants, Enemy, Fleas

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• If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

  Jon Stewart

  Legs, Break, Ifs

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• As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

  Greg Walloch

  People, Perception, Overcoming

  "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

  Karch Kiraly

  Use, Want, Headings

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Feet, Two

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• One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Giving Up, Rain, Years

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• You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.

  Stephen Bruner

  Car, Brain, Hammers

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Done, Kind

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

  Iwan Rheon

  Real, Drama, Home

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!

  Steve Farrar

  Christian, Needs, Hey

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• I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Drinking, Wine

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.

  Bill Cosby

  Home, Color, Challenges

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• Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

  Tim Sandlin

  Religious, Alcohol, Healthy

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• When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

  Linda Chavez

  United States, Citizens, Welfare

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• Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Needs, Use

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

  Ty Segall

  Use, Done, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Pain, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• "Do not lean on your own understanding." That means don't bring in the crutches and lean on them, those crutches that you have designed and made to handle such situations. Stay away from them. Don't lean on them; lean on God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Understanding, Made

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.40, Thomas Nelson

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• I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Clarity, Praying

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• I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.

  Isabel Allende

  Zero, Past, Support You

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• Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.

  A. R. Bernard

  Excuse, Uncommitted

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