Choke Quotes - Page 14

• Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing
  pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

  Ann Richards

  Children, Airplane, Talking

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• Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

  Martha Beck

  Communication, Dark, Bridges

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• All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

  Henry Miller

  Flower, Men, Guy

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Loss, Thinking, Looks

  "The Art of Failure" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 21, 2000.

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• The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.

  Ted Gup

  Government, Hell, Ability

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.

  Stewart Cink

  Character, Golf, Games

  "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.

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• The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

  Chase Utley

  Two, Work Out, Goal

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• All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

  John Wooden

  People, Matter, Pressure

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• There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

  Charles Kingsley

  Cat, Way, Killing

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• Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.

  Patrick Henry

  Struggle, Hands, Wings

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• It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

  Trey Parker

  Sweet, Air, Goats

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• It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.

  Conor McGregor

  Beautiful, Sports, Powerful

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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