Swallowing Quotes

• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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• All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

  John Arbuthnot

  Lying, Party, Political

  "Life of Emerson" by Richard Garnett, ch. 7, 1988.

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• The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

  Campbell Scott

  People, Desert, Way

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• It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Sheep, Goats, Arjuna

  "Ranatunga rebuts Warne jibe". news.bbc.co.uk. February 21, 2004.

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• The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

  Jackie French

  Song, Dancing, Dying

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

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Taken, Imagination

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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Grief, Yawning

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

  W. C. Fields

  Simple, Long, Whiskey

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.152, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Men, Winning

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• Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.

  Lil Wayne

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from May 13, 2012

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• I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

  Hirohito

  Military, Japan, Effort

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

  Jedediah Purdy

  Dragons, Circles, Icons

  "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.

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• When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Mouths

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• I'm too full to swallow my pride

  The Weeknd

  Pride

  Twitter post from May 25, 2012

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• Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

  Lady Gaga

  Angel, Rainbow, Watches

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Feb 24, 2010

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• This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand.
  It's just hard to swallow.

  Steve Lawson

  Book, Hard

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• If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

  Jack Weatherford

  Leadership, Pride, Animal

  Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books

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• For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

  Marisha Pessl

  Motivational, Men, Bait

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.463, Random House

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• Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Bait, Icing

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• We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

  Inga Muscio

  Believe, Healing, Medicine

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.50, Seal Press

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• I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wall, Beer, Glasses

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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