Novocained Quotes & Sayings

As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren't needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. — Lena Dunham

I love to read,
but I can't stand books like that.
And I flat out refuse
to have one of those lives
that I wouldn't even want
to read about."
"But at least I'm numb
as if my heart's been Novocained. — Sonya Sones

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood. — Robert E. Howard

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. — Bassem Youssef

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other. — Elle Macpherson

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over. — Rick Riordan

A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never. — Voltairine De Cleyre

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures. — Joseph Campbell

The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed. — Ronnie Lott

The ancient bond between the tsarist state and Russian nationalism could be used to create powerful emotions when the enemy came from the heathen east. The Mongol invasion had left a powerful mark on the Russian psyche. It was expressed in a deep anxiety about the mixed Eurasian roots of the people and it's culture, which made it easy for an educated liberal to convince themselves that this war was nothing less than a defense of Russia's European identity against the Asian hordes. — Orlando Figes