He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“You're stifling me brother! Can I not have a moment to myself? I swear it wouldn't surprise me to find you sitting… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness… The expanses are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping… — Joan Ryan Copy Share Image
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by… — Arvind Swami Copy Share Image
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling. — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. — Jack London Copy Share Image
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Anything is possible if you believe in yourself, said the guidance counsellor, stifling a laugh. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his… — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good… — Jay Watson Copy Share Image
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