Dulled Quotes
36 quotes by 35 authors
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And…
— Sun Tzu
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Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering…
— Anneli Rufus
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Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
— David Perkins
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and…
— Mark Twain
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The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or…
— Richard M. Nixon
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To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that…
— Richard Adams
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see the expression on…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly…
— Warren G. Harding
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy…
— Tahir Shah
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
— Pliny the Elder
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I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry…
— Jon Foreman
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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old…
— Homer
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No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted…
— Shashi Tharoor
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This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most…
— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
— Ernst Toller
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Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble,…
— Evelyn Waugh
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
— Andrew Mellon
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Who Wrote These Dulled Quotes
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