Quotes About Crippling

Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

Having no choices, no agency, was a killer, but having too many was equally crippling.

Depression is such a crippling, debilitating illness.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

That concept was dealt a crippling blow by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who held that the mind and body were totally separate entities and should be studied separately.

Fear in its most wicked, powerful form cripples our souls and warps the very fabric of our true hearts.

She worries too much. She thinks if I breathe too hard I'm going to be crippled for life.

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

And fear is really the most omnipresent of emotions, isn't it? Fear and panic can be crippling for all concerned.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

Knowledge wasn't always power. Sometimes it was crippling.

There was no need to import my crippling diet cola addiction to a brand-new world, and besides, the fountain was Pepsi products anyway.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.