Stifling Quotations

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

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

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

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

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

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.

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

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

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.

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Without work all life goes rotten.

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

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.