Quotes of Handicap - somelinesforyou

“ Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. ”

- Lawrence Bixby

“ Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate. ”

- Anne Tucker

“ People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. ”

- Helen Keller

“ An uninspired mind is a handicap we all can do something about. ”

- James R. Ball

“ Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ None knows the weight of another's burden. ”

- George Herbert

“ A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ”

- William J. Brennan Jr.

“ France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. ”

- Mark Twain

“ One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it. ”

- Nellie Melba

“ Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ”

- Baruch Benedict de Spinoza

“ The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church. ”

- John R. Mott

“ Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ Every advantage has its disadvantage. ”

- Unknown

“ Not being beautiful was the true blessing… Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. ”

- Golda Meir

“ Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. ”

- Josephine Tey

“ In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ What I wanted to do was work with kids with behavioral and emotional handicaps. It's a puzzle, learning each child, because each child is different. ”

- Clay Aiken

“ Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ”

- Betty Friedan

“ Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. ”

- Lazarus Long

“ It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. ”

- Jim Davis

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ”

- Ray Kroc

“ You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. ”

- James Allen
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