Smothered Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like… — John Updike
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do… — Eldridge Cleaver
There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to… — Edouard Boubat
I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day… — Jane Addams
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within. — Emile M. Cioran
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are… — Vikas Swarup
I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered. — Katie Price
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the… — Fleur Adcock
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… — Wendell Phillips
I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things. — Deana Carter
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass… — Martin Esslin
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered. — D. H. Lawrence
May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never… — Gregory of Nazianzus
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of… — Edmund Muskie
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The… — Edith Sitwell
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as… — Vincent Piazza

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