Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.
Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.
I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.
. . . his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.
Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.
Even though the search for meaning is debunked today, the cries of the human heart can be smothered for only so long. In these yearnings, the search for significance and fulfillment continues.
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.
That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
