Stifling Quotes

Stifling Quote of the day

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Without work all life goes rotten.

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 rather than stifling it.

My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

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 sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

Anything is possible if you believe in yourself, said the guidance counsellor, stifling a laugh.

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

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 for a lifetime.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

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 of warring police tribes.

Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.