Deaden Quotes

'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - Walter Dwight

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. - Alexander Berkman

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. - Max Lerner

They came well prepared. They packed the middle and spread us out a little bit and it deadened our pressure. - Kirk Smallwood

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone. - Phil Harris

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. - Camille Paglia

The object is to learn how to deaden the ball. We're not so much concerned with manipulating it line to line as much as we are just killing the ball. - Doug Mansolino

The heart asks pleasure first, and then excuse from pain, and then those little anodynes that deaden suffering. - Emily Dickinson

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. - Paul Kantner

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. - D.H. Lawrence