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Quotes About Constriction

I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.
~ Brian Littrell
La raison rétrécit la vie, comme l'eau rétrécit les tricots de laine, si bien qu'on s'y sent coincé et on ne peut plus lever les bras.
~ René Barjavel
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
~ Heloise
When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.
~ Sarah Gadon
It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
~ Alison Elliott
A corset is always challenging.
~ Phoebe Fox
Somehow, to me at least, either of those logics seem to fit the enigmas of our existence, here in the cock-eyed room of primate perceptor organs, better than Aristotelian yes/no choices. Of course, if after long analysis, some experiences can finally be reduced to an Aristotelian choice, that is convenient. But starting from the Aristotelian either/or may be rather constricting or strangulating.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
he believed the window of time through which he could enter was shrinking.
~ Robert Crais
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.
~ Robert Bork
in Italia, dove si raggiungono capolavori di sagacia per eludere le leggi che impongono il più piccolo sacrificio o costrizione, stiamo pur certi che le norme attinenti al riposo e simili verranno rispettate senza eccezione con scrupolo prussiano.
~ Dino Buzzati
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
~ Jean Toomer
Fear seized up inside of me; it felt like a fist clenched tight around my heart.
~ Jenny Han
They wear grey coats and trousers and boots, but for most of them the uniform is far too big, it hangs on their limbs, their shoulders are too narrow, their bodies too slight; no uniform was ever made to these childish measurements.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Gloria screamed, but nothing came out. She could feel the scream in her throat, but it was clinging there, too scared to climb out of her mouth. Raymond might have screamed, too--he wasn't sure. His face was an exploding red ball--that was what it felt like. His heart was in the middle of his head. He couldn't see a thing.
~ Roddy Doyle
different sort. The gravity squeezed out the freedom. It felt like one strike and you're out. One attempt at a theory. Neagley said, "Every avenue comes back to the exact same
~ Lee Child
Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.
~ Kiki Smith
With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.
~ Mia Wasikowska
I'll fight for more freedom and prosperity for all Montana: we need to send Trump some conservative reinforcing that will end the liberal constriction.
~ Matt Rosendale
Her throat felt constricted, breath
~ Lisa Unger
He felt his throat constrict. and was overcome with an emotion that he could not name. because it was a mixture of so many.
~ Louis de Bernieres
A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.
~ John Updike
ANGUST  (ANGU'ST)   adj.[angustus, Lat.] Narrow; strait.Dict.   ANGUSTATION  (ANGUSTA'TION)   n.s.[from angustus.]The act of making narrow; straitening; the state of being narrowed.
~ Samuel Johnson
A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.
~ Sharon Salzberg
There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.
~ Kathleen Turner