Stifled Quotes

59 quotes by 55 authors

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg. — Pete Townshend
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it… — Pope John Paul II
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I… — Ice Cube
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking… — Benjamin Disraeli
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. — Brian Eno
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. — Barbra Streisand
There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to… — Taylor Swift
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. — Edith Wharton
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled… — Jack London
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love,… — Julian Barnes
There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade… — Albert Camus
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl. — P. C. Cast
What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices… — Elie Wiesel
Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled? — Sarah Waters
Sheâ€™s just a little faint,â€ I reassured Mrs. Hammond. â€œTheyâ€™re blood typing in biology.â€ She nodded, understanding now. â€œThereâ€™s always one.â€ I stifled a laugh.… — Stephenie Meyer
I turned over, and those big hands got to work on my back. I stifled a whimper in the pillow, because Marco's idea of a… — Karen Chance

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