Quotes having the keyword Stifle
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
by Claude Debussy (Composer, French , born in 1862) keywords: barren, because, free, love, music, passionately, stifle, traditions , try We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.
by Todd English (Celebrity, American , born in 1960) keywords: anymore, certain, guidelines, hire, period, stifle, structure, talented, them, training, way , works Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
by Janet Frame (Novelist, New Zealander , born in 1924) keywords: accepted, could, deciding, divisions, easy, fashionable, help, kind, need, neither, nor, stifle, time, understood , were They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
by Janet Frame (Novelist, New Zealander , born in 1924) keywords: abnormal, accepted, could, deciding, divisions, easy, fashionable, help, kind, meant, need, neither, nor, stifle, time, understood , were The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
by Dennis Hastert (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: congress, control, debate, doing, federal, government, internet, last, online, public, regulate, seeks, should, stifle, thing , trying Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
by William Moulton Marston (Psychologist, American , born in 1893) keywords: actually, change, course, current, day, during, enough, good, impulses, lives, most, our, stifle , us The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
by Ralph Nader (Lawyer, American , born in 1934) keywords: activity, basically, behalf, consumers, corporate, designed, legislative, lobby, stifle , washington Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
by Kate O'Brien (Novelist, Irish , born in 1897) keywords: asked, enough, everywhere, go, opinion, stifle, stifles, them, think, university , writers Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
by Flannery O'Connor (Author, American , born in 1925) keywords: asked, been, best, could, enough, everywhere, go, good, many, opinion, prevented, seller, stifle, teacher, them, think, universities , writers I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
by Jean O'Leary (Activist, American , born in 1948) keywords: american, any, believe, cannot, constitution, elected, group, rights, stifle, use , would Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
by John Charles Polanyi (Scientist, Canadian , born in 1929) keywords: dissent, end, exists, journey, moreover, only, science, stifle , toward If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
by Ernestine L. Rosekeywords: again, allow, america, blast, fair, flowers, freedom, fruits, germ, growth, leaves, noxious, poison, remain, seed, single, slavery, soil, spring, stifle, thrive, up, weed, will , wither The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
by Madame de Stael (Writer, French , born in 1766) keywords: also, clear, conscience, delicate, easy, impossible, mistake, stifle , voice War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
by Leo Tolstoy (Novelist, Russian , born in 1828) keywords: conscience, must, stifle, themselves, try, ugly, unjust, voice, wage, war , within On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
by Cynthia Weil (Musician, American , born in 1937) keywords: basically, bit, hand, off, other, own, real, records, someone, songs, stifle, stuck, style, their, trade, voice , writing
