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And my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. — Tabitha Suzuma

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling. — Jessica Valenti

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth. — Joe Craft

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language. — Caitlin Thomas

My," Miss Simms said, wide-eyed. "I do hope dukes aren't held to the same standard. Can't be healthy for a man, always stifling his ejaculations. — Tessa Dare

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married. — Burt Lancaster

His helmet was stifling, it narrowed his vision. And he must see far. His shield was heavy. It threw him off balance. And his target is far away. — Frank Miller

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. — John Stuart Mill

The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance. — Garry Fitchett

Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement. — Kate Morton

Emotional self-control
delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman

Without work all life goes rotten. — Albert Camus

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder

The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness, — Bret Easton Ellis

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. — Barry Lopez

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling. — Justin Townes Earle

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! — Anton Szandor LaVey

You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling. — E.L. James

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing. — Zane Grey

We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. — Thomas Carlyle

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — Brennan Manning

But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities. — Hanya Yanagihara

The less bravely we live the more stifling becomes our fear of death. — Glenn Haybittle

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. — Billy Strayhorn

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion. — Slash

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. — Norman Lamm

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. — Henry Miller

He guides me and the bird. In His good time! — Robert Browning

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. — Ivor Novello

Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat. — Chaim Potok