Deadened Nerves Quotes

#1. More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.

Bruce D. Perry

#2. The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole.

Ruth Ozeki

#3. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.

Paul Ekman

#4. I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

Pope Francis

#5. In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Bat For Lashes

#6. Well, I am the man of your dreams. You just don't know it yet.

Angeline Kace

#7. Wilderness, wilderness ... We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.

Edward Abbey

#8. I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

Matt Kenseth

#9. The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

Chris Moneymaker

#10. You brought the needle & I brought the thread. We meant to mend our two broken hearts, but we ended up stitching them together.

Amanda Lovelace