Disability Quotes - Page 3

Disability can be no handicap.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Limitations only go so far.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

There are things that I really find important, and that we need to remind ourselves of. When you think about disability, do you really think about it? Someone who's a full-time trainer or a boxer, someone who's got a major disability, but who doesn't let that get in his way, that's a really good message for someone who is able-bodied. It can make them think, 'Wow, I suppose I could be doing better for myself.'

Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

A troubled life beats having no life at all

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.