Limping Quotes

• I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Running, Children

  Speech at Chautauqua, NY, 14 Aug. 1936, in Public Papers (1936) vol. 5, p. 289

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• Well-apparel'd April on the heel
  Of limping Winter treads.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Winter, April

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

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• Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Truth And Lies, Lies Truth, Truth And Falsehood

  Speech by PM Najib Razak at WAN-IFRA 16th Asian Media Awards, www.nst.com.my. April 19, 2017.

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• It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spring, Night, Sea

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 1

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• Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fall, Men, Cities

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes to Electra, Act 2, 1943.

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• Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

  Bode Miller

  Years

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• Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

  Adrian Rogers

  Want, Blame, Satan

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• You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

  Nora Roberts

  Lame, Excuse

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.713, Penguin

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• Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Time, Truth, Lag

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For those who limp go not backwards. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Kindness, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

  Saint Augustine

  Doe, Littles, Way

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• I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.289, Best Books on

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• Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Army, Love Is, White

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• The wrinkles in my brow,
  The furrows in my face,
  Say, limping age will lodge him now
  Where youth must give him place.

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Wrinkles, Giving, Age

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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• We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

  Brian D. McLaren

  God, Christian, Humble

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• A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

  George Washington

  Moving, Government, Half

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.306

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• The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, World, May

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• I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with
  a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Horse, Pain, Animal

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• A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her limping into office with the highest unfavorable ratings for any new president.

  Mara Liasson

  Country, Winning, Office

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Oh, sheez, what’s Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne) How’d the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping?...Thought so. I got the thank-you card from Planned Parenthood last week. Seems they want to honor me for saving the gene pool. (Syd)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Honor, Cards, Saving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Kindness, Lame

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. “If anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave. Me. Behind. Do you understand?” I would have argued, but I was feeling a little shocky for some reason. “I’m not good at abandoning people,” I finally said. A front-desk person scurried over, first-aid kit in hand, but Pritkin snarled at the poor guy and he quickly backed up a step. “Then get good at it!” He stomped off, limping, one shoulder hanging at an odd angle. “You’re welcome,” I murmured.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, People, Guy

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• I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.

  Terry Francona

  Responsibility, Cutting, Going Away

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• The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

  Markus Zusak

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.499, RH Childrens Books

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• But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Heaven, Stories

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