Swallow Quotes

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.