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Tag Name "Chokes" (14)

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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
William Butler Yeats
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If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!
Brandon Sanderson
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
Emile Zola
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They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
George R. R. Martin
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I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.
Gerry Spence
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Kind pity chokes my spleen.
John Donne
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Suppressed pain chokes us in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.
Ovid
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Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
Yisroel Salanter
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Diane Ackerman
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.
Franny Billingsley
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
George Santayana
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For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.
Hilda Doolittle
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We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
John Perry Barlow
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
Soren Kierkegaard