Stifling Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Should, Labor

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• Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Loss, Thinking, Reality

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

  Jack London

  London, Meteors, Sparks

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• 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.

  Derek Mahon

  Community, Solitude, Weirdness

  "Derek Mahon, The Art of Poetry No. 82". Interview with Eamonn Grennan, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Vitality, Ethics

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Language, Resignation

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• We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.

  Edwin Catmull

  People, Trying, Unseen

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• 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 wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Thinking, Zippers, People

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• When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

  African Spir

  War, Men, Alcohol

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Thinking, Self

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• Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.

  J. Paul Getty

  Book, Dark, Age

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• 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.

  Jay Watson

  Cheesy, Corny, Paranoid

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Dogma, Pens, Falsehood

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• ...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

  Gad Saad

  Atmosphere, Might, Eggshells

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• Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

  Judd Gregg

  Voice, Democracy, Awakening

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• 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 into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they didn't do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Fire, Numbers, People

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1214, Dell

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

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Perfect, Feminist

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• If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

  Ernestine Rose

  Weed, Spring, Flower

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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 as if he stifled grief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Attitude, Grief, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.818, Delphi Classics

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• Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

  Zane Grey

  Unjust

  "The Call of the Canyon".

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• 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 pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha

  Chetan Bhagat

  Laughing, Mind, Pockets

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• The function of man is to live, not to exist.

  Jack London

  Short Life, Men, Atoms

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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

  Ralph Nader

  Consumers, Behalf, Corporate

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• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Education, Teacher, Women

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

  John Shadegg

  Competition, Tape, Cost

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