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Quotes About Strangulation

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Romans thought the vine killed trees by strangulation and named it "little wolf," which explains the origin of the plant's genus, Lupulus.
~ Amy Stewart
One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation.
~ Alan Bennett
Coodcoodak, on his knees, was strangling Draig Bon-Dhu's bagpipes with his hands, while, with his head thrown back, he shouted over the monstrous sounds emerging from the bag, wailed and roared, cackled and croaked, bawled and squawked in a cacophony of sounds made by all known, unknown, domestic, wild and mythical animals.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
wounds. No petechial hemorrhages, which rules out strangulation. No bleeding in the ears, which eliminates some brain traumas. We do have a large
~ Lisa Gardner
It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.
~ Edith Pearlman
I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
~ Tatjana Patitz
I disliked having a fork pointed at me and I disliked the sound of the voice never stopping; I wished he would put food on the fork and put it into his mouth and strangle himself.
~ Shirley Jackson
If I were a father I should hate the child, who, punctual as the clock, had every morning and evening an explosion of tenderness and wished me good-day and good-evening, because he was ordered to do so. It is in this way that all that is generous and spontaneous in human sentiment becomes strangled at its birth. You may judge from this what love means when it is bound to a fixed hour!
~ balzac honore de iii
The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.
~ Robert Zubrin
La aceptación de la información anómala aporta terror y posibilidad, revolución y transformación. El rechazo del hecho insoportable asfixia la adaptación y estrangula la vida.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
In Russia the government is autocracy tempered by strangulation," quipped the French woman of letters Madame de Staël. It was a dangerous job. Six of the last twelve tsars were murdered—two by throttling, one by dagger, one by dynamite, two by bullet. In the final catastrophe in 1918, eighteen Romanovs were killed. Rarely was a chalice so rich and so poisonous. I
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Mockery had gone too far during Hearts. There had been an attempt at strangulation and then her ear had been perforated by a fork.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I heard she did it with the sword you found," Dad said. "That's what I keep trying to tell everyone! Finally, somebody gets it! I think Mom is going to choke Kendra to death." The comment brought his mom over to him. She embraced him tightly. "Hey, Mom," Seth grunted. "I thought I was kidding about the strangulation.
~ Brandon Mull
Intelligent, unscrupulous, determined, and capable of seeing a man strangled without changing color.
~ Henry James
Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.' Rizzoli
~ Tess Gerritsen
Closing in a noose around her neck, the sound blocked the outside world – its air, its light.
~ Steven Erikson
Images of strangled women, women in cages do not push any limits; they are a mainstream cliche of a mainstream social order. Rock music fails to live up to its subversive tradition when it eroticizes the same old establishment sadomasochism rather than playing with gender roles to make us look at them afresh
~ Naomi Wolf
The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face
~ Neal Shusterman
And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind of shock therapy — only it was never 'therapy.' They have smothered the first little flame of a man's own spiritual life and a first shy question with the fire extinguisher of their erudition. By such performances a person can really be smothered and strangled!
~ Helmut Thielicke
a tie is a noose
~ Yann Martel
Strangulation. It was a fearful way to go, wrestling, kicking your way towards oblivion, panic, the fretful sucking for air, and the killer behind you most likely, so that you faced the fear of something totally anonymous, a death without knowledge of who or why. Rebus had been taught methods of killing in the SAS. He knew what it felt like to have the garotte tighten on your neck, trusting to the opponent's prevailing sanity. A fearful way to go.
~ Ian Rankin
Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of "advanced" countries. And this "booty" is shared between two or
~ Unknown