Quotes of: Crutch Keyword

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Jesse Ventura

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Harry Mathews

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

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Angie Stone

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

RJ Mitte

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Tom Stoppard

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

Gene Wolfe

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made t...

Peter Atkins

Don't live your whole life on holy crutches.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.

Louise Caiola

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Jesse Ventura

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

Charlie: [Trying to reassure George, who is in crutches after too many encounters with the CDA] Now, George, I know you can do this. I picked out an easy door for you, in Nepal. Nice, quiet Nepal. George Sanderson: You know, you're right. Here, Take ...

Monsters, Inc.

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

Much Ado About Nothing

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Larry Flynt

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Richard Dawkins

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

Antony Beevor

Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?

Burning Up

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all. Sophie, you're practically a midget," he reminded her.

Burning Up