#strangle

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#carry #done #far #favors #gratitude

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. ↗

— Jean Racine

#him #i #only #rival #strangle

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#had #hands #his #kings #priest

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#forget #laugh #life #me #night

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire! ↗

— Adam Sandler

#i #like #microphone #more #sir

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#house #leadership #now #party #republican

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#free #king #last #man #never

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#came #commentaries #concept #dvd #i

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#because #breeding #early #easy #easy-going

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful