Amputees Quotes

• If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

  Demetri Martin

  Im Sorry, Letters, Saws

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

  Aimee Mullins

  Struggle, People, Insecurity

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Cutting, Technology, Goal

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• Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Feelings, Suffering

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

  Aimee Mullins

  Facts, Opinion, Disabled

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• There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.

  Aimee Mullins

  Motivación, Real, Inspiración

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• Su contagiosa convicción de que nuestro amor era único y desesperado me infectó de una ansiosa enfermedad; pronto aprenderíamos a tratarnos con la circunspecta ternura de los camaradas amputados, pues estábamos rodeados de las más conmovedoras imágenes de la evanescencia, fuegos artificiales, glorias matinales, ancianos, niños. Pero lo más conmovedor de esas imágenes eran las intagibles reflexiones sobre nosotros mismos que veíamos en los ojos de los demás, reflejos de nada más que apariencias, en una ciudad dedicada a la apariencia, y, por mucho que intentáramos poseer la esencia de la alteridad de cada uno, fracasaríamos inevitablemente.

  Angela Carter

  Morning, Children, Moving

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• The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Attitude, Needs, Realization

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• La enfermera es temporalmente la conciencia del inconsciente, el amor a la vida del suicida, la pierna del amputado, los ojos del ciego reciente, un medio de locomoción para el recién nacido , el conocimiento y la confianza para la joven madre, una voz para los demasiado débiles para hablar, y así sucesivamente.

  Virginia Henderson

  Amor, Confianza, Madre

  "Una lectora de Virginia Henderson: Excelencia en enfermería".

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• I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.

  Harvey Pekar

  Letting Go, Sweet, Lying

  "Fictional character: Real Harvey". "American Splendor", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees using the exact same prosthetic legs I have, running the exact same times I have - and that's not the case.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Running, People, Would Be

  "Oscar Pistorius: The bullet in the chamber" by Gary Morley and Robyn Curnow, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

  Terry Fox

  Basketball, New York, Night

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• La vida no tiene romance sin riesgo.

  Sarah Doherty

  Life, Strong Women, Adventure

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• Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing memories were aching.

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Memories, Missing

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• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, People, Groups

  "'No pareces discapacitado'". Entrevista con Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. 9 de marzo de 2010.

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• Con esta contundente salva de disparos poéticos, Lawson ha demostrado ser el verdadero bardo de Bizarro, su laureado loco. Pasando del capricho oscuro al choque retiniano y a la indignación política sin perder el ritmo, The Troublesome Amputee es una poderosa colección de versos negros como el carbón.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Poderoso, oscuro, loco

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• He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.

  John Green

  Kissing, Thinking, Hands

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• I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

  Aimee Mullins

  Asking, Knees, Said

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• The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.

  Demetri Martin

  Night, Twister

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