Swallow Quotes

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.

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.

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

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

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

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.

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.

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

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

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

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.

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

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

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

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 admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.