Anaesthetic Quotes

#1. The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#2. It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

Marsha Blackburn

#3. Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

N.D. Wilson

#4. You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.

Marian Keyes

#5. If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

Tullian Tchividjian

#6. An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

Lewis Hyde

#7. We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then returning suddenly to violent life when we thought she was asleep. We were both sweating when she finally went under.

James Herriot

#8. Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Helen Rowland

#9. Oh better far those echoing hells
Half-threaten'd in the pealing bells
Than that this 'I' should cease to be -

John Betjeman

#10. The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.

Marcel Proust

#11. The perception of the opponent is always the target.

Grant Hammond

#12. My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.

Juli Inkster

#13. Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

Ameen Rihani

#14. The severance between us was surgical, and there was no anaesthetic..

Jostein Gaarder

#15. [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anaesthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

William Ernest Henley

#16. My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

Maeve Binchy

#17. Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic.

Sue Townsend

#18. When I tell a patient that I think I should do their operation under local anaesthetic they usually look a little shocked. In fact the brain cannot itself feel pain since pain is a phenomenon produced within the brain.

Henry Marsh

#19. When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Richard Dawkins

#20. Bundy Rum- better than local anaesthetic.

Cheryse Durrant

#21. Bungee Jump is to Suicide as General Anaesthetic is to Lethal Injection. You only know the difference on the way back up.

Matt Greene

#22. That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

D.H. Lawrence

#23. Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.

Joan Fontcuberta

#24. Fear is quite the anaesthetic

A. Ashley Straker

#25. Good nutrition and vitamins do not directly cure disease, the body does. You provide the raw materials and the inborn wisdom of your body makes the repairs. Someday healthcare without megavitamin therapy will be seen as we today see childbirth without sanitation or surgery without anaesthetic.

Andrew W. Saul

#26. Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.

Philip Larkin

#27. We were beginning to understand why, in pre-anaesthetic days, the Bible had stipulated that suicide was a sin. Anything other than the prospect of eternal damnation, and the human race would probably have done away with itself at the first sign of the dentist.

Kate Griffin