Dulls Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. — Frank Leahy
A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and… — Marvin J. Ashton
There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give… — Rudolf Rocker
Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life. — Fran Tarkenton
The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is… — Viola Meynell
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here.… — Daniel H. Pink
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health. — Barbara Johnson
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. — Mary Daly
The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing the… — William Stafford
I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted.… — Alfonso Cuaron
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness --… — Dag Hammarskjold
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of… — Billy Collins
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.… — Ezra Pound
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. — Julia Ward Howe
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough.… — Michelle Malkin
It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it. — Will Self
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite… — John Piper

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