Smothering Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product.…
— William Bernbach
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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
— Robert Bork
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If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.
— Clive Barker
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While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them…
— Mark Driscoll
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Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American…
— William S. McFeely
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But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the…
— Simon Van Booy
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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
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Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection…
— Robert H. Schuller
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Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.
— Timothy Keller
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Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as…
— Sylvia Plath
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The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
— Marshall McLuhan
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his…
— Wilfred Owen
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Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,†the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it…
— James Patterson
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about…
— Isaac Marion
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I have a problem. I have two brothers. One brother is a boatswain in the Navy, the other was put to death in the electric…
— Myself
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Hes such a happy baby, so playful, always smiling and giggling. Most of the time I have to stop myself from smothering him with kisses…
— Kendra Wilkinson
Who Wrote These Smothering Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Smothering Quotes as follows: