Stupefying Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke! — Robert Browning
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. — Avital Ronell
The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not… — Jack Goody
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. — Herbert Marcuse
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged. — Taisha Abelar
I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one… — Stefan Zweig
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic… — Lester Bangs
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy
Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must… — Eduardo Galeano
Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science,… — Kirk J. Schneider
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. — Quentin Crisp
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. — Bryant H. McGill
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. — Iain Banks
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. — Arthur C. Clarke
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge… — Alain de Botton
It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library,… — Rachilde
What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this… — Thrity Umrigar
The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe,… — Diane Ackerman

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