Disabiling Quotes & Sayings

Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces". — Barack Obama

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish. — Marc Anthony

In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon. — Edward John Trelawny

And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship.
That is not what happened. — Helen Oyeyemi

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You would renounce organizing your future. You would let yourself be guided by the randomness of encounters and events, indifferent to one choice over another. — Edouard Leve

Mr. Worldly-Wiseman is not an ancient relic of the past. He is everywhere today, disguising his heresy and error by proclaiming the gospel of contentment and peace achieved by self-satisfaction and works. If he mentions Christ, it is not as the Savior who took our place, but as a good example of an exemplary life. Do we need a good example to rescue us, or do we need a Savior? If — John Bunyan

I was conscripted during the war and even made to do coolie labor. The sneakers I now wear when I work in the fields are the ones the Army issued me. That was the first time in my life I had put such things on my feet, but they were surprisingly comfortable, and when I walked around the garden wearing them I felt as if I could understand the light-heartedness of the bird or animal that walks barefoot on the ground. That is the only pleasant memory I have of the war. What a dreary business the war was. — Osamu Dazai

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football ... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain. — Bob Fitzsimmons

The self was both its origins and its journey. — Salman Rushdie

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn - the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres. — William Mackergo Taylor

Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson