Cauterized Quotes

#1. It's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel, ... best to have your nerve endings cauterized.

Sonya Hartnett

#2. I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue. (Winter Makepeace)

Elizabeth Hoyt

#3. The blow had cauterized instantly.

Alan Dean Foster

#4. If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house.

Gilbert Gottfried

#5. Whatever you are doing, therefore, whatever you are thinking, whatever you are feeling becomes of crucial importance at that moment,

Lionel Fisher

#6. I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring.

Ivan Doig

#7. When one follows the path with heart, one often bleeds. (But what is the alternative - a cauterized core?)

Erica Jong

#8. The true atheist is he whose hands are cauterized by holy things.

Francis Bacon

#9. I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Ayn Rand

#11. I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

Lee Strobel

#12. To move to a new place
that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you
all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.

Margaret Laurence

#13. Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

Delores Phillips

#14. The NYPD knew Sar Gedeon as a human drug lord. If they'd come in here now, they would have found him dead, sporting Spock ears, a cauterized hole in his torso, no heart, and a hoofprint branded into his chest. I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that investigation.

Lisa Shearin

#15. I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."
Everyone in the room stared at him.
"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.

Scott Lynch

#16. There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.

George Orwell