Quotes About Strangling
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.
~ Matt Taibbi
BazillionQuotes.com
THAT'S IT! Terminus cried. That's AGAINST THE RULES! Polybotes frowned, obviously confused that he was being told off by a statue. What are you? he growled. Shut up! He pushed the statue over and turned back to Percy. Now I'm MAD! Terminus shrieked. I'm strangling you. Feel that? Those are my hands around your neck, you big bully. Get over here! I'm going to head-butt you so hard--
~ Rick Riordan
BazillionQuotes.com
There shall be a fire that knows your name, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you. *
~ Jeff Vandermeer
BazillionQuotes.com
We know that death is the only end of art. A chap who has gone to all the trouble of strangling his wife is entitled to his moment of splendour on the gallows – it is a crime to make him sew mailbags like a common thief.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
BazillionQuotes.com
That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated it shall walk the world in the bliss of not-knowing. And then there shall be a fire that knows the naming of you, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you that remains.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
BazillionQuotes.com
Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that…" Then the darkness took it.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
BazillionQuotes.com
Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There
~ Larry Niven
BazillionQuotes.com
Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.)
~ Larry Niven
BazillionQuotes.com
I think the day will come when it will be recognized without doubt, not only on one side of the House but throughout the civilized world, that the strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race.
~ Andrew Roberts
BazillionQuotes.com
All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling. And I, in my bed each night, listen to my twenty shoes converse about it. And the moon, under its dark hood, falls out of the sky each night, with its hungry red mouth to suck at my scars.
~ Anne Sexton
BazillionQuotes.com
Her blood-curdling snoring, with its gargling and squawking and its terrifying pauses is like the sound the devil might make if he were alternately relishing and strangling on a pound of human flesh.
~ Bailey White
BazillionQuotes.com
Strangling is the very definition of dominance. Slow-motion murder.
~ Gillian Flynn
BazillionQuotes.com
But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?" "It was a president, señora." "Of what? Some place where they don't have any oxygen?" "Of the United States." "As I said.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
BazillionQuotes.com
Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?" she asked. Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son." "So have we all from time to time," Eddis said seriously.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
BazillionQuotes.com
Michael wondered what the legal ramifications were for strangling a knight of the realm. Surely nothing he couldn"t live with.
~ Julia Quinn
BazillionQuotes.com
Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it's his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can't strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can't handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.
~ Stephen Richards
BazillionQuotes.com
the absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.
~ Hilaire Belloc
BazillionQuotes.com
Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?
~ Kenneth Patchen
BazillionQuotes.com
Credulity is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain the truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in anything.
~ Thomas Paine
BazillionQuotes.com
Quinn: "Shiiiiiiit. I nearly killed him." Blay: "Well, arguably you were being gallant." referring to strangling Saxton for cheating on Blay. Black Dagger Brotherhood #11 Lover at Last
~ Ward J. R.
BazillionQuotes.com
Clement felt nearly hysterical with exhaustion, and strangling Gilly seemed better than listening to him recount irrelevant history.
~ Laurie J. Marks
BazillionQuotes.com
Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
BazillionQuotes.com
Churchill: The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race. Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labor Party): If that had happened we should have lost the 1939 -45 war. Churchill: No, it would have prevented that war. [Speech in the House of Commons, May 11,1953]
~ Winston S. Churchill
BazillionQuotes.com
I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.
~ John Darnielle
BazillionQuotes.com
