Top 125 Suppressing Quotes & Sayings

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

Oil companies have played a role in suppressing the development of alternative fuels.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.

You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing.

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

The Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Student loans are delaying retirements. They're suppressing the housing market. They're suffocating new business formation. They're even leading young people to delay getting married and having children.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.

One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that AIPAC has been so successful in suppressing criticism has lent some credence to such false beliefs.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

Being vice-captain at Chelsea, I've learned to manage my emotions better this season and have matured massively, but part of that is embracing those feelings of disappointment rather than suppressing them and pretending everything is OK.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity.

The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.

Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.