Smother Quotes

62 quotes by 57 authors

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. — Leo Buscaglia
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother was suggesting that… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all… — Arthur Rimbaud
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and… — Charles Bowers
Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work… — Ronald Reagan
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike. — George Eliot
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity… — Philip O Ceallaigh
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her… — Betty Friedan
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible. — Robert E. Lee
Contentment: The smother of invention. — Ethel Mumford
It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother. — Ben Robertson
At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and impair our lives.… — Thomas S. Monson
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to… — Stanley Kunitz
Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible… — Learned Hand
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea… — Gerry Spence
If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your… — Richard Branson
Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it. — Ronald Reagan
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and… — Arundhati Roy
Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and… — Saint Francis de Sales
Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious. — Charles R. Swindoll

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