Inflicts Quotes
49 quotes by 39 authors
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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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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
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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
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Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away
— Madonna Ciccone
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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
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
— John Henry Newman
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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
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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
— Ian McHarg
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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
— Martin Seligman
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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
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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
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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
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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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