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Choking Quotes

Quotes on things that quietly cut off room to grow

Choking is used loosely here — weeds choking out growth, a person choking up over a cancelled show, someone choking on happiness while cashing checks. It's a word for anything that squeezes something else out.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

Quotes by Tony Ferguson

We must, we must cut the EPA's legs off. I hate to say that, because it sounds rotten, but they are choking this country to death with legislating through the bureaucracy in Washington.

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

Quotes by Mitch Daniels

I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard...

Quotes by Michael Easton

Advisory Quotes

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

Quotes by Mehbooba Mufti

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...

Leo Tolstoy

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when...

Quotes by Jeff Lindsay

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

Quotes by Gregory David Roberts

I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in...

Quotes by Don Kardong

Always Quotes

The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing...

Quotes by Charlie Puth

There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you...

Quotes by Carl Honore

It was great to get rid of the long hair. It's such a pain that, if you look at it, it's always wet when guys wrestle: you dump gallons of conditioner in it to keep it wet so you're not...

Quotes by Baron Corbin

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I...

Quotes by Ann Richards

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Choking quotes page cover?
This page uses choking in several senses: an emotional welling-up, a bureaucratic system stifling growth, and a slang reference in a song lyric. It's a broad, word-based collection rather than one single theme.
Why would someone search for quotes using the word choking?
Choking is a vivid, physical word that people reach for when a softer term doesn't capture how overwhelming a situation feels, whether emotionally or bureaucratically. That intensity is exactly what draws people to quotes built around it.
Is there a quote about getting emotional unexpectedly?
Yes, one actor describes choking up while working on a long-running show despite being used to cancellations and short-lived projects, showing that even seasoned performers get caught off guard by emotion. It's a relatable line for content about unexpected vulnerability.
Does this page include a quote about bureaucracy slowing things down?
One quote criticizes the sheer number of oversight panels and appointed committees as weeds choking out good government, describing them as a drain on time, money, and energy. It's a pointed line for posts on institutional inefficiency, alongside our Advisory quotes page.
Is there a lighter, more casual use of the word here?
Yes, one lyric-style quote uses choking necks alongside cashing checks as a boastful line about having enough for a roof over one's head. It's a good example of how the same word can shift completely in tone depending on context, next to our Business quotes page.

A couple of these lines connect that squeeze to plain Business frustration, the sense of red tape closing in from every side.