#ripple

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

...who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of love... ↗

— John Geddes

#crippled #hunchback #love #love

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#center #i #life #original #out

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#crippled #dad #dramatic #harder #i

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#crippled #ever #hamburgers #sell #should

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life? ↗

— Alan Ladd

#crippled #good #i #life #me

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#express #hurt #inside #only #ripples

She danced so curving, lissom, like the laughter of the song. She sent resounding into spaace and down the ages long. ↗

— Tui Allen

#age

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history