Choke Quotes

• I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Sorry, Mean

  What Then Must We Do? ch. 16 (1886) (translation by Aylmer Maude)

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• We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Judging, Littles

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

  Jules Renard

  Anger, Thinking, Mad

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• After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  H. G. Wells

  Fire, Leader, Ashes

  "Kgalema Motlanthe's Farewell Speech". www.iol.co.za. March 12, 2014.

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• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  Charles William Eliot

  Spiritual, Thinking, Expansion

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• The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

  John Lee Hooker

  People, Choices, Radio

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• We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

  John McEnroe

  Success, Tennis, Loser

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Travel, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

  Robin Williams

  Mean Girls, Dead Poets Society, Bones

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, Easy, Should

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• It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ends, Trembling, Fine

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.586, Simon and Schuster

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• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bulldogs, Holding On, Career Change

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.234, Stackpole Books

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• Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

  June Jordan

  Brother, Lying, Writing

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• Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

  Tom Waits

  Bad Day, Years, Ems

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• In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

  Liam Neeson

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

  Arthur Ashe

  Art, Moving, Yards

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taken, Ideas, Pieces

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.111, Random House

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• There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

  Alec Baldwin

  Writing, People, Letters

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You gain power by pretending to be weak.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Power, Gains, Weak

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Care, Take A Deep Breath

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• He who eats alone chokes alone.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dining Alone, Arabian

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• If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

  Jeff Dunham

  Color, Doe, Smurf

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• Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

  Mark Twain

  Blood, Stranger, Intimate

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Guy, Tough

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