Swallow Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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