The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — Anonymous 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
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
“We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.” — Peggy Haymes 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 hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“Get ready for some more mind-numbing detail that doesn’t make for snappy, easy-to-digest sermons.” — Ken Wilson Copy Share Image
It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the… — Trey Gowdy 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
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machine-like. They'll refute this,… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Numbing is any activity that you use to desensitize your feelings so that you dont experience vulnerability or hurt. But by numbing… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And… — Robert Jay Lifton 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
“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
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
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
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
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
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it… — Hermann Hesse 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
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
“Before conducting this research I thought that numbing and taking the edge off was just about addiction, but I don’t believe that… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I knew this was a critically important finding in my research, so I spent several hundred interviews trying to better understand the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
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
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.” — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. (Dumbledore) — Joanne Kathleen Rowling Copy Share Image
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Alcohol was a great numbing agent. Screw the chocolate and ice cream – I’ll take vodka to heal a broken heart.” — Tiffany Snow 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
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
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
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
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
I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's… — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
