Stiflingly Quotes & Sayings

If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you. — Wahb Ibn Munabbih

Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. — George Gerbner

Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder. — Caroline Hanson

When in doubt, choose to live. — Terry Pratchett

The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on the night was the faint, fresh smell of buddings and the intimacy that comes from the warm delta air trapped between slumbering earth and lowering clouds. — Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago. — Creed Bratton

Waves of heat shimmy off the tarmac, and the air is stiflingly hot, with humidity that's even worse — Lisa See

Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells. — Aldous Huxley

The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story. — Laini Taylor