Benumbing Quotes & Sayings

She walks to the boy, tilts her head up at him, and smiles. He bends down to kiss her. Then he helps her onto the horse, and she rides away with him to a faraway place, until they can no longer be seen.
These are only rumors, of course, and make little more than a story to tell around the fire. But it is told. And thus they live on. — Marie Lu

The only constant I can find is hard work. — Paul Dano

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger. — William McFee

Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain. — Amit Ray

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It's what propels societies forward. — Melinda Gates

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe. — Sandor Marai

Long moments passed, and finally she rolled onto her side too so that our backs faced one another. Icy silence fell. So much for a peaceful or romantic night. — Richelle Mead

I'm blind without my glasses. — Adam Ant

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. — Charles Caleb Colton

You are a particle in this great big universe that because of your divinity, are able to manifest greatness! You are so alive that what you think becomes reality, and what you create, well, it becomes your environment. — Yvette Lopez

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing! — Paullina Simons

Some folk are born wild. Some have wildness thrust upon them. — Flora Kennedy

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on). — Paul Karl Feyerabend

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.' — John Darnielle

Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master of the life, not of the school; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven, not he whose head spins the finest cobweb. — Ralph Cudworth