Even in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that… — Kyo 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle 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
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman 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 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
The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a… — Tom Lehrer 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
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
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
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion. — Slash Copy Share Image
Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also… — John D. Rockefeller 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
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
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
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