Strangles Quotes

#1. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

Evan Sutter

#2. War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Philip Kearny

#3. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Anthony Liccione

#4. America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

John Updike

#5. Drifting away from one's culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.

Q.M. Sidd

#6. I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

Harmon Killebrew

#7. Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

Ian McKellen

#8. Unchecked craving strangles the careless man.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn't say the fox killed the brains. You'd say the fox offed the goose.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

#10. Wander with intent
into a garden glorious.
Walk with double brisk
upon edenic paths.
Flee the cursing fear
that lights upon your eye.
Seize the twisted dream
that strangles earth and sky.

Craig Froman

#11. I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.

Gillian Anderson

#12. Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes ... we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.

Stephen Richards

#13. Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib.

Atul Gawande

#14. There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.

Susan Denning

#15. For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Scarlett Thomas

#16. Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.

Emo Philips

#17. Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Anger is like a creeper vine that strangles the tree on which it grows

S.E. Sever

#19. We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Alexander Dubcek

#20. Jackson?' 'Sir?' 'What's a pundit?' 'I think it's one of them Indian geezers, sir, as comes up and strangles you from behind.' 'Yes, that sounds very likely.

Desmond Cory

#21. True compassion is about not bruising the other person's self-respect.

Naoki Higashida

#22. Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Jean Toomer

#23. So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Daniel Pipes

#24. Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

Vaclav Klaus

#25. Falling in love is like that: you always feel like a dumbass at some point, even if you know it's coming - it's unavoidable.

Kevin Hearne

#26. I have also tailored my happiness to fit,' I cried out. 'But I have grown, and now my happiness is too tight. Sometimes it almost strangles me ...

Andre Gide

#27. Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. Beautiful food and health are priceless.

Bryant McGill

#29. True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence

Slavoj Zizek

#30. I've often heard people say, "Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise." When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#31. In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

Randy Lerner

#32. Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.

Rachel Caine

#33. Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!

Patrick O'Brian

#34. He strangles me, squeezing my lungs with his smile, his words, and his beautiful face. He make me shiver with delight, feel safe, and sets my heart ablaze with a passionate fire that I can't put out.

Lauren Hammond