Dulled Quotes

36 Dulled quotes by 35 unique authors

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
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
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems. — David Perkins
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world. — Andrew Mellon
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
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. — Colin Powell
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses,… — Edgar Allan Poe
But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you… — Roland Barthes
And just when I thought the pain had dulled, my mind would betray me and bring Dad back to life in my dreams. Sometimes I… — Ilona Andrews
Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled. — Richard Matheson

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