Deadens Quotes

#1. The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

Camille Paglia

#2. On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.

John O'Donohue

#3. Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.

Lauren Groff

#4. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

Pope Francis

#5. Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

Edmund Burke

#6. Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Alan Cohen

#7. What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

Frederick Buechner

#8. Cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

Immanuel Kant

#9. Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

Garrison Keillor

#10. Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

John Piper

#11. Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#12. Andrew Carnegie noted in 1891, "The parent who leaves his son enormous wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son and tempts him to lead a less useful and less worthy life than he otherwise would.

Leonard E. Burman

#13. Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.

Billy Graham

#14. Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Hannah More

#15. Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

Margery Allingham

#16. It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Kelly Bryson

#17. War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Alexander Berkman

#18. The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

James Howard Kunstler

#19. The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

Maxim Gorky

#21. This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

Lew Wallace

#22. With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

Louis Kronenberger

#23. Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Jonathan Nolan

#24. It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.

R. Scott Bakker

#25. Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy
friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it ...
deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,
a cooling fan of feathers.

Thomas Dekker

#26. A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

#27. I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

David Gerrold

#28. Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Beth Moore

#29. I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.

Ving Rhames

#30. Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting; children have to be lucky to have great parents!

Amit Chatterjee

#31. All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete.

Christian Lander

#32. Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

Jack Layton

#33. I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Rick Perry

#34. Courage means willing to risk everything.

Sanford Meisner

#35. I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

Lynda Resnick

#36. She loved their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life.

Erik Larson

#37. Poverty appeared first in their meals, then in their shoes, and finally in their thoughts and prayers. Still,

Dominic Smith

#38. Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

T.A. Miles

#39. When things are in the hands of the state, they are in a hell of a state.

Leon Louw

#40. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana