Inflicts Quotes

49 quotes by 39 authors

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran
The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations… — Carol Bellamy
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the… — Irwin Shaw
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate… — Jeremy Rifkin
Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away — Madonna Ciccone
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The Constitution Will Likely… — Tommy Franks
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. — John Henry Newman
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret… — Emile M. Cioran
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and… — Edwin Percy Whipple
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that… — Brian Reynolds Myers
Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football… — David Halberstam
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it… — Joseph Warren
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman
I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear… — Matt Fraction
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of… — Aldous Huxley
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. — John Henry Newman
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to… — Jerome K. Jerome

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