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Tag Name "Stifled" (41)

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All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.
Pope John Paul II
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Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode.
Rob Lowe
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It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.
Alexander Pushkin
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How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?
Sadiq Khan
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Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.
Stefan Zweig
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand
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There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
Taylor Swift
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton
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The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.
Tony Hsieh
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Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
Eugen Herrigel
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Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
Gautama Buddha
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This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
George Washington
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I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
J. K. Rowling
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Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.
Judd Gregg
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Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
Ken Danby
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The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that's in me is not coming out. I'm too busy, too hectic. I'm serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad.
Michael Franti
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We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.
Mike Pence
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Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.
Moses ibn Ezra
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Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.
Pete Townshend
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Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon. Brother! Tyson crushed Frank in a hug. Percy stifled a laugh. Actually he's more like a great-great-...Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother. Thanks. Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.
Rick Riordan
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There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.
Albert Camus
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No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.
Ruth Benedict
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I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
Anne Rivers Siddons
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