Choke Quotes - Page 2

• My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.38, Random House

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• Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

  Wallace Stevens

  Photography, Evil, Cameras

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.256, Vintage

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• People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, People, Society

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Drinking, Knowledge

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

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• The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Animal, Magnolias, Pornography

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fake, Criticism, Use

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.111, Random House

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• Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chaos, True Peace, Access

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Strong, People, Gains

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Powerful, Real, Believe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ignorance, Differences, Mind

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Science, Power, Years

  "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.

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• It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Needs, Pathetic

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Heart, Broken

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• What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Dream, I Hate You

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perfect, Imagine, Unreal

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Weed, House

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Who We Are, Our Lives

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

  Gene Mauch

  Motivational, Baseball, Slumps

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• Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

  Trent Lott

  Tyrants, Lasts, Tyranny

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• I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

  Paula Deen

  Cost, Tongue, Ifs

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• Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

  Mitch Daniels

  Weed, Real, Government

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• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning

  Nellie Bly

  Two, Water, Trying

  Nellie Bly (2015). “10 Days in a Madhouse (Annotated)”, p.66, Golgotha Press

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• The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

  Alistair Darling

  Economy, Global Economy, Left

  "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

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• By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worst Enemy, Age, Thirty

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Eight, Able, Ifs

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