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Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
— Nicola Sturgeon
When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville) — Marti Melville
My breath sour against my fist, which I still held to my mouth as if this was a sorrow that could be stifled.
— Melanie Benjamin
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
— Barbra Streisand
I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
— Anne Rivers Siddons
What happens to impatient girls who try to tell their man what to do in bed?" She stifled a sob of pleasure. "They have to wait longer.
— Tessa Bailey
I stifled a laugh, not sure which was funnier: the idea of me being a lady o him being a gentleman.
— Danielle Paige
I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.
— Edward Abbey
I stifled a yawn. It's too early to be such an asshat Daniel.
— Michelle Hodkin
When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now.
— Haruki Murakami
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
He never tried anything other than to kiss her, hold her hand; often, in his company, she felt boredom rise in her like a stifled yawn.
— Laura Barnett
And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.
— Kate Mosse
Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.
— Moses Ibn Ezra
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What a place. Glokta stifled a smile. It reminds me of myself, in a way. We both were magnificent once, and we both have our best days far behind us.
— Joe Abercrombie
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
— Edmund Burke
I washed his tiny limp resting body; it was then that I finally released the cry, that for so long, had remained stifled.
— Stacy Sorrells
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You gonna tuck me in?"She stifled the grin. Opportunistic, determined idiot. "You gonna behave?"
"Define 'behave. — Elizabeth Hunter
Chance stifled a grin, and all I could think was that this girl had to be related to me. Only women who were related to me annoyed me this much.
— Barbra Annino
How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?
— Sadiq Khan
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
— Marti Melville
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.
— Edith Wharton
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
— Gautama Buddha
The glorious freedom of writing is a beautiful thing that must never be stifled by censorship.
— Stewart Stafford
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
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
— Eugen Herrigel
