Benumbs Quotes & Sayings

Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

once a week and doesn't do much when he is there. — Jonathan Kellerman

It seems perfectly plain to me that it is war itself which must be halted, without wanting one side or another defeated in particular. — Naomi Novik

Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs. — Ambrose Bierce

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. — Arthur C. Clarke

Unlike some people, I don't have the urge to go sticking my fingers in it. — Rachel Hawkins

What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail? — Brian Tracy

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes. — Edward Sapir

The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money. — Donnell Rawlings

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.' — Christopher Hitchens

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something, — Trevor Baylis

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. ~Hamlin Garland, McClure's, February 1899 — Hamlin Garland

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to the federal government for solutions to problems great and small, real and imagined, personal as well as social. — Robert Higgs

Continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die. — Maria W. Stewart

If you can get through middle school without hurting anyone's feelings, that's really cool beans.
-Summer Dawson — R.J. Palacio

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. — Martin Seligman

I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors — Carol Rifka Brunt

Slavery ... dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man. — Alexis De Tocqueville