Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

Bret Easton Ellis

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea...

Augusten Burroughs

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Douglas Coupland

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

David Whyte

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

David Whyte

But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside

Janet Fitch

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Janet Fitch

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked...

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Vauvenargues Marquis

Lazy people are always wanting to do something

Jane Green

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.

David Hume

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

Charlie McDermott

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

Bernard Williams

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

Sam Perlozzo

Yell at them for what? For not getting a hit? When they quit trying and get lazy I'll yell at all of them.

Bernard de Mandeville

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.

Jason Biggs

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.