But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
What the American people hope - what they deserve - is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it… — Sophie Anderton Copy Share Image
I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win? — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are… — Bessel van der Kolk Copy Share Image
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad,… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible for anyone outside this damn beltway to really understand how the Congress works. If you aren't here, walking… — Brock N. Meeks Copy Share Image
