Suppressing Quotes

• Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

  Ovid

  Grief, Grieving, Rage

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• Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, House, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Fear, Running Away, Living In Fear

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

  Chris Hani

  Love, Inspirational, Country

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• Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Mistake, Lying

  "Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage". Book by Marianne Williamson, pp. 131-132, 2013.

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• Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.

  James Grant

  Money, Nice, Mean

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• Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

  LeCrae

  Hurt, Pain, Bullets

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• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Crush, Thinking, Ideas

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Understanding, Not Sure, Bodyguard

  Michael J Sullivan (2012). “Percepliquis”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Long, Razors

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.305, Random House

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• A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Rights, Deny, Critical

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• By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

  Will Ferrell

  College, Thinking, Careers

  "Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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• There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Struggle, Order

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.15, Vintage

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• What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Crush, Ideas

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• All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  True Identity, Identity, Discomfort

  "Why You Aren’t Who You’re Supposed to Be" by Matthew B. James, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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• Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, “Can you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?” “Can do,” Janco said with a smile. “Lieutenant Darren, let me be the first to congratulate you on capturing the elusive and legendary Kelav. He’s been wanted in Ixia for years on multiple counts of espionage.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Years, Relief, Firsts

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• When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

  Andrew Shue

  Hurt, Pain, Anger

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• There learned arts do flourish in great honour
  And poets's wits are had in peerless price;
  Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,
  Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice.
  For end all good, all grace there freely grows,
  Had people grace it gratefully to use:
  For God His gifts there plenteously bestows,
  But graceless men them greatly do abuse.

  Edmund Spenser

  Art, Men, People

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.175

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• One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

  Bill Vaughan

  Feelings, Way, Exhausted

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• I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.

  Oliver Sacks

  Passion, Thinking, Musical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

  Henry Williamson

  Children, Creating, Imagination

  Henry Williamson (1963). “The Power of the Dead”

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• For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

  Umberto Eco

  Poetry, Joy, Three

  Umberto Eco (2012). “On Literature”, p.41, Random House

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• ... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Character, Joy

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• The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Mind, Danger

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