Strangle Quotations

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts.

We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you're going to get. You don't want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they're going to say is way better.

Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.

When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

the perception in the world was that they tried to strangle us. In Lebanon we violated this basic rule and we were unable to hold what we took.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas.

Most of us don't think watching a 12-year-old girl strangle to death is a sexual turn-on, but to him it is.

He went to her room and grabbed her by the neck, started to strangle her and punched her a couple of times in the face.

I was asked if it's been fun. It's like being a family and having a lot of teenagers. Not every day is fun. Some days you want to strangle them. But we're coming together. The chemistry is getting better.

I think that this Administration and Congress are weaving a pernicious web of anti-choice initiatives that taken together strangle reproductive rights.

Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.

Paul took four penalties. I was ready to strangle him.

Microsoft's pitch seems to say that big antitrust cases have to take forever or they can't be brought, which would strangle antitrust law in a fast-moving industry. When you are weak on the facts and weak on the law, you pound on the judge.

Today's news is a forewarning for congress and the administration. If we fail to expand and modernize our public transportation systems, the growing gridlock in many urban areas will strangle economic progress and lessen the quality of life.

yet the ratings kept going down. We finally figured it out; people don't dislike John, they're just tired of bad news. When they flip on the TV, they want to get AWAY from their problems, not hear about people getting thrown overboard tied to their boat anchor or working out so they can strangle innocent kids faster and better.

It would be devastating for Ford - they would lose money hand over fist. If they're not able to build F-Series, it would just strangle them.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.

It will become a battle for who gets the funding. The solution should be around how to promote higher education, not how to strangle it.

I want to hug him more than strangle him, but it's close,

He's an idiot. They name streets after people like that - one-way and dead-end. I like the guy, we play poker together but if I found him right now, I'd strangle him.

I asked him if it bothered him that I don't like baseball. He used to laugh, 'cause I'd say I'd strangle somebody if they made me sit through three innings of baseball. And he said, 'That's what I love most about you.' He knew I was real and that this love was real, and he loved that about me.

A good actor is like watching a great musician, but having a bad actor terrifies me, because it means I've got to find something to say or something to do. And that's really frustrating, because you want to be concentrating on everything, and instead you find yourself bogged down with helping someone know their lines or not bump into the furniture, and that's when you want to strangle them.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.