Coarsened Quotes

#1. yet to be moved by music is essentially human; it reflects sensitivity. The life Gregor led as a human being left no room for this kind of appreciation. But, regressing into an animal, his sensibility has become refined rather than coarsened.

Franz Kafka

#2. What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

John Burnside

#3. When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

Mo Yan

#4. Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

Jeffrey Toobin

#5. The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

Ford Madox Ford

#6. Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#7. WIMPs (for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, which is to say specks of invisible matter left over from the Big

Bill Bryson

#8. The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Seth Godin

#9. Then I circle the pivot point. The point right before the path separates.

Kasie West

#10. I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Jilly Cooper

#11. Tessa exchanged a commiserating glance with Molly as the crowd gradually dwindled.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#12. Just because you're beautiful, they think you can't act ... I've got a lot more to prove.

Carol Alt

#13. You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.

Ice-T

#14. You shall become the person you are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. The poorer we are
inwardly,
the more we try to
enrich ourselves
outwardly.

Bruce Lee

#16. I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

Gary Johnson

#17. Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

George William Curtis

#18. Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Richard Baxter

#19. I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies, and because my parents were such open people, I kept that alive.

Doreen Virtue

#20. It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to
guide me to the underworld.

Chika Onyenezi