Blunted Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,… — C.S. Lewis
If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed. — Sun Tzu
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? — Montgomery Clift
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. — Miguel de Cervantes
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the… — Pope Francis
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers,… — Steven Erikson
What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some of the most… — Richard D. Ryder
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener -… — Conrad Veidt
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have… — Edward Wilmot Blyden
I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. — Mehmet Oz
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that… — Walter Savage Landor
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me. — John James Audubon
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on… — Barack Obama
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,… — Frances Wright
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed… — Umberto Eco
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude. — Joseph Heller

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