quotes about Crutches
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Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.
-- A. R. Bernard -
Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
-- Ben Savage -
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A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
-- Ben Savage -
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
-- Charles Lamb -
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
-- Emile Zola -
Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'
-- Harry Browne -
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
-- Holly Black -
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers
-- J.P. Moreland -
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
-- James A. Baldwin -
I’m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,†Trent said. “It’s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.†“Crutch or no, she’s hurt!†Ceri protested. “I mean,†Trent said intently, “she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn’t like.
-- Kim Harrison -
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When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.
-- Kim Wilde -
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
-- Philip Massinger -
My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.
-- U.G. Krishnamurti -
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... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.
-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.
-- Brad Stine