Tamping Quotes

#1. When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

Dani Shapiro

#2. The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

Robert M. Morgenthau

#3. We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be for us the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

John Green

#4. It takes a special man not to feel threatened by a smart, headstrong girl like you. And it takes a generous, loving heart to want to nurture that strength, to push you outside your comfort zone, instead of tamping it down or trying to control it." Duke

Melissa Foster

#5. We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent the United States, so in that sense whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.

Nell Irvin Painter

#6. If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?

Chris Hayes

#7. You need to be careful who you're around if you want to stay healthy, but you also need to make sure that you are tamping down and dealing with your own emotional distress and negative emotions as well.

John Franz

#8. The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.

Clive Thompson

#9. For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

Noel Gallagher

#10. But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely ... punishment?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic.

Jonathan Lethem

#12. everybody around here's such a major conservative till they get sick, get screwed over by their insurance company, their job goes over to China or whatever, then they're like, 'Oooooh, what happened?

Ben Fountain

#13. I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

Nick Antosca

#14. The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

Nicolas Roeg

#15. that in itself age doesn't make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.

Isabel Allende