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Quotes About Choking

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking
~ Gene Mauch
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
~ William E. Simon
It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.
~ Donald Trump
I imagine he's at the altar," she replied matter-of-factly. "Where I left him." Jaynes' eyes bugged and a little choking sound emerged from
~ Rhonda Nelson
Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her....boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going to choke on her chewing gum.
~ Ally Carter
The first few years I was competing, I'd ride so well in practice, then choke and fall in competition. Now I take a deep breath and say, 'Look at me. I'm outside. I'm doing what I love.' Still, nothing's matched the pressure I felt standing at the top of the halfpipe for the first time at the Olympics.
~ Gretchen Bleiler
Are you in a suit?" I managed at last, my voice choking up. "You didn't have to dress up for me." "Quiet, Sage," he said. "I'll make the hilarious one-liners during this daring rescue.
~ Richelle Mead
Once I faced a female with diamond skin, Nix said breathlessly. I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me. Really? No, I saw that character on X men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses. Except your insanity, Lucia pointed out. sigh. Well played, Archer. then carry on...
~ Kresley Cole
I was transfixed—even as she was choking the life out of me." "Really?" "No, I saw that character on X-Men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses.
~ Kresley Cole
Bombs Away!" he yelled, swooping low over StregaSchloss. He saw little figures on the ground fleeing from the large green projectile that was speeding their way. "And a direct hit, if I'm not mistaken," he observed to himself. With a tremendous slapping sound, Ffup's digestive overload landed on a human target. There was a scream, a ghastly choking sound, and then silence.
~ Debi Gliori
I still practise her remedy for hiccups – slowly drinking a glass of cold water with a couple of spoons of sugar stirred in. This, incidentally, is a much pleasanter way of overcoming hiccups than by choking yourself out of breath.
~ Amartya Sen
During the days that followed our return, we were all, I think, seized by a veritable delirium. We wished to speak, to be heard at last. And yet, it was impossible. We had hardly begun to speak and we were choking.
~ Robert Antelme
Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.
~ Jenny Han
Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the
~ Lewis Carroll
Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
~ Joan Powers
Her throat felt constricted, breath
~ Lisa Unger
Miles growled, and sat with his back to it. He quickly slid into the role of referee, controlling the flow of ideas while concealing his own dearth of hard factual information. He folded his arms, and said "Um," and "Hm," but only very occasionally "God help us," because it caused Elena to choke.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
~ Alistair Darling
Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting was over, and now he would have been happy to return to it.
~ Roderic Jeffries
Panic, in this sense, is the opposite of choking. Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Do you have any loose teeth?" The hissing demon asked, "What doessss that have to do with anything?" "They can be a choking hazard during the procedure.
~ Scott Meyer
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
~ Scott Westerfeld
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.
~ Scott Westerfeld
faster in areas of our life where effort and striving are, in fact, profoundly counterproductive. This is because the problem of choking or freezing up extends
~ Edward Slingerland