Narcotic Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. — Charlie Chaplin
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,… — Eugene H. Peterson
Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose… — Marianne Bluger
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age… — Gerald Early
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all. — Andrzej Stasiuk
Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality… — Rolf Potts
Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. — Rolf Potts
By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and… — Rush Limbaugh
Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the… — John H. McWhorter
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known… — Thomas Szasz
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic… — Peter Straub
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. — Russell Baker
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter… — Cesar Aira
THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas… — James Lee Burke
Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties.… — William Alcott
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it… — Ian MacKaye
"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're all… — Hunter S. Thompson
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper. — Robert Benchley
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Storytelling has a narcotic power. — Robert Harris

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