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Quotes About Choke

He who seeks water from an empty vessel may choke on its dust. (No Other Gods. pg. 223)
~ Wilder Penfield
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.
~ Douglas Adams
What a wonderfully exciting cough," said the little man, quite startled by it, "do you mind if I join you?" And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing that caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused. Together they performed a lung-busting duet that went on for fully two minutes before Arthur managed to cough and splutter to a halt.
~ Douglas Adams
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.
~ Ray Liotta
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
~ J. C. Ryle
The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.
~ Roald Dahl
THE CHOKE HOLD cut off blood to a man's brain, putting him to sleep like a laptop when its battery is low. It was an effective way to subdue a person, though sometimes that person did not wake up. Pike sat on the edge of the bed, waiting for the man to wake.
~ Robert Crais
And like everybody else in the world, his heart lodged in his throat and tried to choke him when he saw Mackey Sanders scampering along the top of the giant amplifier. But when he saw Mackey fall off, it threatened to stop.
~ Amy Lane
Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by 'Shut Up India' in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship.
~ Rahul Gandhi
Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
~ Rafael dos Anjos
The word worry is derived from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "to strangle or choke." The stranglehold of worry keeps a woman from enjoying a life of contentment and peace.
~ Linda Dillow
Oh, what did she finally decide on? asked the pilot. At one point she told me she was thinking of sending the bride a barbed-wire choke chain for Miles, but was afraid it might be misinterpreted. No
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Byerly will no doubt wish to squire Rish." Thus saving steps for ImpSec, too. Mamere was well aware of every angle. Ivan managed not to choke. "Just . . . don't invite Miles. Or let him invite himself.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You have folly deeprooted within you. That weed is a native of the soil. A very little watering will make it sprout, and choak the noble flowers that education has planted.
~ Samuel Richardson
Even your silence wants to choke me, you who are so abysmally silent.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Just out of curiosity, can an immortal choke to death on a bagel? (Francesca)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She swallowed back
~ Barbara Freethy
A rogue—But her manner was gay and delicious.She could make a Baptist preacher chokeWith laughter over a dirty joke.
~ Joseph Moncure March
I find it difficult to speak in remote places because it is so hot and dusty that I tend to choke.
~ Hema Malini
I feel cluttered when there is no time to analyze experience. That is the silt—unexplored experience that literally chokes the mind.
~ May Sarton
Are you all right?" Nessa asked in some concern. "Perfectly," he said as soon as he could safely do so. "I simply find your candor refreshing." She looked rather confused. "I hope not to choke you with it. Is this our box?
~ Brenda Hiatt
She had choked the octopus.
~ Gardner Dozois
They gulped, those stupid birds; they ate from the bag and they swallowed with glee. And they choked on giant mouthfuls of my shit. My shit! Oh, the looks on their faces! The stunned silence. The indignation! The shaking of heads, and then they flew off en masse to the neighbour up the street with the dribbling fountain so they could wash their beaks.
~ Garth Stein
My second fight at UFC 1, I fought Ken Shamrock. In the fight I choked him. As soon as he tapped, I let go. He tried to continue, but the ref got kind of stuck like, 'should I let it go or stop the fight.' That's when I looked at the ref and I said, let it go, we're going to continue.
~ Royce Gracie