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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. -- J. K. Rowling
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques. -- Joost Meerloo
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. -- Marshall McLuhan
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible. -- Michael Imperioli
Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion. -- Chris Benz
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. -- Manuel Puig
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know. -- Cathy Rigby
In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing. -- Tom Shales
We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing. -- Paul Simon
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music. -- Chester Bennington
People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too. -- Mary Lambert
And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life. -- Robert Jay Lifton
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children. -- Scott Turow
Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us. -- Brene Brown
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There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. -- Joseph Heller
Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win? -- Rush Limbaugh
Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win? -- Rush Limbaugh
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. -- Rex Reed
Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia. -- Vera Nazarian
But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out. -- Sophie Anderton
Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out. -- Kristine K. Stevens
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality! -- Dave Sim
It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid. -- Trey Gowdy
The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy. -- Bret Easton Ellis
I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me. -- Vince Gill
I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits -- BrenÃ© Brown
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. -- Victoria Moran

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