Strangulated Quotes

#1. The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules.

Ted Tinling

#2. Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

Mark Twain

#3. I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.

Anne Lamott

#4. I feel waves of hatred against the stupidity of my era suffocating me. Shit is rising into my mouth , as with a strangulated hernia

Flaubert

#5. I would regard meanings
given by others so far
as refreshing boon,
I would still be enamoured of rose
or any heartless flower's smell
if tender tides of your affection
had not suffused
the pollens of my heart
with loving aroma.

Suman Pokhrel

#6. There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

#7. Treat your husband like a king... you are the pray-er; Jesus is the answered.

Betty Malz

#8. There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures.

Alycia Debnam Carey

#9. It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.

Regina O'Melveny

#10. Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Peter Steele

#11. I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good ... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

Deborah Ellis

#12. Most of the things that stop us aren't things that we can't do, but things we refuse to learn.

James Woosley

#13. I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Kid Rock

#14. I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

Ellen Hopkins

#15. I don't want to make a tea set. I want to make crystal, as the wonderful Billy Wiseass would put it. That poor bastard has it good: he's never experienced love. It'll be easy for him to write a romance novel.

Danilo Kis

#16. I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

Elsie De Wolfe

#17. I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

Sefi Atta

#18. If there's anything I've learned in my three centuries, it's that I would rather feel pain, sorrow, and misery than go through life feeling nothing. I have learned to cherish my humanity with all it's beauty and bile.

Brittany Comeaux