Stifling Quotes

64 quotes by 62 authors

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. — Henry Miller
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity. — Marilyn vos Savant
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant… — Hilary Mantel
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound… — Douglas Adams
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess,… — Jon Krakauer
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against… — Kelly Corrigan
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the… — Frank Peretti
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — Brennan Manning
D.H. Lawrence had the impression â€“ that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… — Gilles Deleuze
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that somedayâ€•at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhereâ€•the bell jar, with its stifling… — Sylvia Plath
I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed… — Diana Gabaldon
I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back… — Chetan Bhagat
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. — Tabitha Suzuma
And heâ€™s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain;… — Veronica Roth
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion. — Slash
I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is… — Kristin Armstrong
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism… — Richard Dawkins
To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds.… — Alex Berenson
Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth. — Joe Craft

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