Stifling Quotes

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.