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Tag Name "Snuff" (31)

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Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with the use of military force. Let's welcome that diversity, instead of trying to snuff it out.
David Cameron
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They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Edmund Burke
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I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
Fred Durst
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Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
James J. Hill
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He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.
Keith Preston
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Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.
Marcel Proust
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Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
Michael Huffington
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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
Mitch Albom
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After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
Robert R. McCammon
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
Truman Capote
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Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
William Shakespeare
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.
Ben Affleck
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What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!
Bernard de Mandeville
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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
Douglas Hofstadter
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The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.
Gerald Brenan
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Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.
John Carpenter
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
Lord Byron
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If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Marian Wright Edelman
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When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.
Masao Abe
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel de Cervantes
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