Ableist Words Quotes & Sayings

Don't get mad except on purpose. — Morton Blackwell

Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay. — Suzanne Collins

Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change. — Sharon Weil

Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the world if he would fall down and worship him. That was a manifestly absurd proposition, because Christ, as the Son of God, already owned the world; and besides, what Satan showed him was only a few rocky acres of Palestine. It is just as if some one should try to buy Rockefeller, the owner of all the Standard Oil Company, with a gallon of kerosene. — Mark Twain

Evie," he whispered, "you're so warm, so lovely ... oh, hell. I've got two months, thirteen days and six hours before I can take you to my bed. Little she-devil. This is going to be the death of me. — Lisa Kleypas

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize. — Jorge Luis Borges

What I want from you is simple. I want today only.
If it's laughter, I want it. If it's pain, I want it.
Whatever today holds, as long as the day holds you, I want it.
I want today only. — D. Love

I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life. — Suze Orman

And besides, she was curious. She had questions. And answering questions was very nearly always more important than caution. — Jim Butcher

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer. — Katharine Whitehorn

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware ... Beware ... — Anne Sexton

In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name. — Dallas Roberts

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return. — Pier Luigi Bersani