Tranquilizing Drug Quotes & Sayings

His happiness was almost painful, like circulation returning to a dead leg. — Pat Barker

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. — Jean Baudrillard

If it feels right in your gut, this is who you are, this is what you do, this is what you feel, then don't hide that. You just stick to it and the world will catch up. — Martina Navratilova

There are neither raptures, nor ecstasies, nor transports of bliss in the pleasures of the table; but they make up in duration what they lose in intensity, and are distinguished above all by the merit of inclining us towards all the other pleasures of life, or at least of consoling us for the loss of them. — Brillat-Savarin

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

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. — David Sedaris

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail. — Alice Miller

When you fail to work you fail to glorify God. — Sunday Adelaja

Crush the infamous thing! — Voltaire

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.

Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave. — E. M. Forster

Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers. — William Spencer

Some things take care of themselves....like snow & adolescence. — Unknown

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. — Boyle Roche

It (nursing) comes more from care than study. — Johanna Spyri