Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it… — Livy Copy Share Image
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things. — Nilus of Sinai Copy Share Image
Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible. — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Yet, after all, insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, my not the savage be the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything… — John Clare Copy Share Image