Top 100 Suppressing Quotes
#1. Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing ... You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.
Enya
#2. We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
Dalai Lama
#3. Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I've gotten older. But now I don't want to be 'sort of dating' someone. I don't want to be 'kinda hanging out' with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.
Greg Behrendt
#4. Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
Nancy Pelosi
#5. And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.
Stefan Heym
#6. There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
Eli Roth
#7. Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.
Mariah Carey
#8. The rule of clerics is totalitarian. It means people can't choose. Humanity is varied, and we should celebrate that instead of suppressing it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#9. Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.
Alain De Botton
#10. When we pay attention and listen instead of denying, suppressing, fearing, or disliking our spontaneous feelings, we gain great access to our natural intuition.
Deborah Sandella
#11. Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.
Barack Obama
#12. I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.
John Lee Hancock
#13. Somehow suppressing her wolf, who was eager to slice open Marley's stomach, Jaime simply gave her an unpleasant smile. You know, I watched an old episode of Friends yesterday. It was so damn funny it could have made your boobs fall off ... Oh, you saw it.
Suzanne Wright
#14. Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.
Sara Paretsky
#15. The last thing they need is Lieutenant Gorman telling them to lay down suppressing fire with flame units and fall back by squads.
Michael Stephen Fuchs
#16. Wat's tes-tees?" inquired a small voice. Jemmy had abandoned his rocks and was looking up at me in profound interest. "Er ... " I said. I glanced round the room in search of aid. "That's Latin for your balls, lad," Roger said gravely, suppressing a grin.
Diana Gabaldon
#17. Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.
Michael Greger
#18. Unspoken words keep struggling; they create negative images in minds of people who want to hear them and who keep suppressing them.
Balroop Singh
#19. One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
Bill Vaughan
#20. What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
Elaine Pagels
#21. Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
Barack Obama
#22. It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.
Kate Morton
#23. Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge).
Dada Bhagwan
#24. My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.
Stephen Richards
#25. And in every instance, the motive is the same: suppressing dissent and mandating compliance.
Glenn Greenwald
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.
Adolf Hitler
#29. I think of myself as being perfectly photoshopped. If I started scraping at the layers of what I'm suppressing - what I've put a pretty picture over - things would start looking pretty ugly.
Tarryn Fisher
#30. The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.
Sam Owen
#31. There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.
Mark Zuckerberg
#34. As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.
Evgeny Morozov
#35. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
Barack Obama
#36. Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.
Colin Clark
#37. Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
Jacques Ellul
#38. There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.
Jonathan Coe
#39. I want all the books on the shelves.
I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.
E.L. Konigsburg
#40. One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that AIPAC has been so successful in suppressing criticism has lent some credence to such false beliefs.
George Soros
#41. The lesson of history is that, in the long run, super-elites have two ways to survive: by suppressing dissent or by sharing their wealth.
Nick Cohen
#42. We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.
Lisa Kleypas
#43. For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
Cheryl James
#44. On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.
Matt Haig
#45. Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#46. Ivan couldn't think of a religion that was any damn good at making utter truthtellers out of its practitioners. Maybe the Quakers were truly plainspoken at one time, but even they managed to squeeze out a Richard Nixon after a few hundred years of suppressing their human propinquity for untruth.
Orson Scott Card
#47. Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
Alfred North Whitehead
#48. Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else.
Osho
#49. To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.
Eric Hoffer
#50. Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.
Leonard Orr
#51. Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.
Albert Low
#52. When the day to day life is suppressing you, how could you put your moral values and will power to the realm of life?
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#53. If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection,
J.R.D. Tata
#54. Ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin". If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer.
John Paul Warren
#55. I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
Marianne Faithfull
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. It's fine." Brett shrugged, suppressing the urge to say something like, "The drugs are okay, but the sex is lousy." But she didn't want her suddenly nun-like sister to have a heart attack before Brett got a chance to pump her for information.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#59. You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream
Mel Robbins
#60. One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.
Robin Meade
#61. The scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.
Percy Williams Bridgman
#62. The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.
Romesh Gunesekera
#63. Weight-loss drugs are intended to enable patients to lose weight more effectively than diet or exercise alone by: 1. suppressing appetite, 2. increasing feelings of fullness, 3. inhibiting the absorption of fat, or in some cases, 4. increasing the metabolism slightly
N.J. May
#64. Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.
Henna Inam
#65. Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art ...
Allan Bloom
#66. Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
John Milton
#67. It stings every now and then, but I've moved on. Not only that, but I've moved on without suppressing shit and being in denial.
Cara Dee
#68. You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Vachel Lindsay
#69. The Republicans are all about suppressing votes.
Howard Dean
#71. No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.
Colleen Hoover
#72. Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
Henry Williamson
#73. In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In each case, your dopamine is suppressing your serotonin.
Daria Snadowsky
#74. When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What's amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.
Marci Shimoff
#75. Inferiority Complex: A wholly or partly unconscious sense of inferiority, or feelings of lack of worth. The overcompensation of these feelings can lead to neurotic symptoms. Superiority Complex: Suppressing feelings that exist in an attempt to conquer an inferiority complex. According
Paul Kleinman
#77. One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more, worth suppressing.
Rudyard Kipling
#78. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Octavio Paz
#79. Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.
Rick Perlstein
#80. Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.
LeCrae
#81. All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek.
Gregory Maguire
#82. 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
#83. The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.
Bhikkhu Analayo
#84. The next morning, I am silly and light. Every time I push the smile from my face, it fights its way back. Eventually I stop suppressing it.
Veronica Roth
#85. There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#86. You're suppressing my first amendment rights," she said, voice muffled. "You don't live in America; you live in the United States of Teague.
Lauren Gilley
#88. Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.
Raheel Farooq
#89. Since the grasses are being parasitised, they grow less, leaving more room for other flowering plants. Pywell demonstrated that sowing rattle seed into an English meadow significantly boosted the diversity of flowers present by suppressing growth of grasses.
Dave Goulson
#90. The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.
Henri Poincare
#91. Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
Jay Inslee
#92. 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
#93. Suppressing natural feelings, Methley said, in the end distorted both mind and body. And excluding them from the consideration of novelists distorted the novel, infantilised it, turned good fiction into bad lying.
A.S. Byatt
#94. Suppressing the symptom does nothing but force the true problem to express itself on a deeper level at some other time.
Garth Stein
#95. The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#96. I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
Rowan Atkinson
#97. A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
L. Ron Hubbard
#98. We have reached a time where we are suppressing talents in our communities with our common thinking.
Auliq Ice
#99. In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very 'gifted' improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
Malcolm Gladwell
#100. Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.
Tom Graves
