Tranquilizing Quotes

#1. The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

Richard Schickel

#2. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The milking machines sounded tranquilizing, and there was the collegiality of seventy animal spirits thriving, warming the barn with cud-chewing, nose-snuffling, and sisterly mammalhood.

Edward Hoagland

#4. I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

Jack Hanna

#5. Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

James Thurber

#6. His Grace woke up in the morning red-eyed as a ferret and in roughly the same temper as a rabid badger. Had I a tranquilizing dart, I would have shot him with it without an instant's hesitation.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. The tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

Agnes Repplier

#9. Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

Wilton E. Hall

#10. Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

Tae Yun Kim

#11. Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

John Strachan

#12. History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Sara Sheridan

#13. The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

Alan Watts

#14. My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

Marco Casagrande

#15. What's important for my daughter to know is that ... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Kamala Harris

#16. So often we confuse mistakes for soul mates, lessons for
lovers, and at the same time worthy life partners for one-night stands.

It's an epidemic.

Akif Kichloo

#17. People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

Rachel Hollis

#18. Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.

CLAMP

#20. The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

Arthur C. Clarke

#21. If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did - but for the wrong reason.

Dan O'Shannon

#22. All the strangest things are true.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#23. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Gautama Buddha

#24. The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

Michael Graves