Quotes About Stifling

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

techniques. That combined with subject's intense curiosity and drive to escape what she sees as the stifling confines of a traditional medieval Jewish household led to her devising the plan that led to her materializing in ODEC #3.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

While she respected his intellect, sometimes his inability to err could be stifling. It left no room for Inès to have thoughts or opinions that differed from his.

My Daddy always said a lady's gotta sit still and hush her mouth except for please and thank you and you don't say. But it's not fair to do that to a girl. Talking is the most fun you can have. Clothes on, clothes off, it's everything in the world.

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.

I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by the time I was 28, it was stifling me.

Existing antitrust law in the United States addresses mainly the harm from price gouging, not the other kinds of harm caused by these platforms, such as stifling innovation and undermining the institutions of democracy.

in the lower self, love is neediness, "chemistry" or infatuation, possession, strong admiration, or even worship—in short, traditional romantic love. Many people who grew up in troubled homes and who experienced a stifling of their Child Within become stuck at these lower levels or ways of experiencing love.

With the help of parents, other authority figures, and institutions (such as education, organized religion, politics, the media, and even some psychotherapy), most of us learn to stifle or deny our Child Within. When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges. I further describe these two parts of each of us in Table 1. (See page 10).

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.

There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so boring.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

while everyone in all the cars behind you swelters in the July sun that no air-conditioning can ever overcome

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

The Romans' contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity's greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the sciences that flourished in the colonies of their Empire.

Huele a encerrado, a moho, a rancio; produce frío, es húmeda, penetra los vestidos; posee el sabor de una habitación en la que se ha comido; apesta a servicio, a hospicio.

and turned her attention once more to the peas, stifling a flutter of irritation. Will had done such a good job of looking after her when he

Her great bed had been moved in, and the walls hung with thick tapestries to exclude any noise or sunshine or fresh air. They had put rushes down on the floor with rosemary for scent, and lavender for relief. They had moved all the other furniture out of the room except for one chair and table for the midwife. Anne was expected to stay in bed for one whole month. They had lit a fire although it was midsummer and the room was stifling.