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  • wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

    Believe   Son   Thinking  
    Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.
  • I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

    Football   Team   Three  
  • All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

    Men   Talent   Capacity  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.135, A&C Black
  • It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

    Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
  • The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

    Love   Thinking   Style  
  • Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

  • At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?

    Soccer   Football   Games  
  • To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

    Strong   Believe   Doubt  
    Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.351
  • I feel like my endurance is actually better. Especially trying to get down to 140, I was experiencing body cramps.

    Trying   Endurance   Body  
    Source: www.boxinginsider.com
  • When someone you love is hurting, if it was possible, you'd want to take their pain for them. But do I really want cramps and sore boobs?

    Hurt   Pain   Love Is  
    Twitter post from Dec 23, 2010
  • Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.

    Tired   Lost Ones   Shoes  
  • No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

    Knives   Style   Wizards  
    Steven Brust (2003). “The Book of Athyra”, p.134, Penguin
  • It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

  • I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

    Ignorance   Poetry   Wish  
    Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 22
  • Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

    Stress   Feelings   Lines  
    Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.130, Xist Publishing
  • I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

    Hands   Drawing   Fancy  
    "An Interview with the “Dilbert” Cartoonist Scott Adams" by Zachary Kanin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2008.
  • Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

    Eye   Years   Giving  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.434
  • Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

    Sister   Giving   Lord  
    John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.446, Wordsworth Editions
  • While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.

  • A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

    Parent   Mind   Bondage  
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.354
  • It becomes tricky, and you start to think about the cramps rather than just actually what you're trying to do on the court, which is obviously win the match.

  • To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.

    Strong   Believe   Men  
    Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.234
  • Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

    Sex   Aunt   Cuddling  
    David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.14, Hachette UK
  • A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

    Men   Sitting   Legs  
  • When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

    Hair   Two   America  
  • I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.

  • I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.

    Mistake   Sleep   Bed  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

    Lying   Flower   Men  
  • A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

    Sight   Hands   Wish  
  • Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

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