Quotes About Swallowing Your Words

#1. Desire
I desire you
more than food
and drink
My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world
I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you

Rumi

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

Winston Churchill

#3. To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.

Helen Oyeyemi

#6. I'm not a Christian because I'm strong and have it all together. I'm a Christian because I'm weak and admit I need a Savior.

LeCrae

#7. Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life ... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Ugo Betti

#8. I want steak," he said, stopping to look at her. "And shrimp. And lobster. And pancakes. And a candy bar".
"I'm sorry, you'll have to settle for a couple of sandwiches".
Thomas sighed."Figures".

James Dashner

#9. I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

Moby

#10. Judas said, "Master, as you have listened to all of them, now also listen to me. For I have seen a great vision." And when Jesus heard this, he laughed and said to him, "You thirteenth daimon, why do you try so hard? But speak up, and I shall bear with you.

Rodolphe Kasser

#11. What has reason to do with the art of painting?

William Blake

#12. It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

Hakuin Ekaku

#14. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

V.C. Andrews

#15. What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Pope John Paul II

#16. Are - you - insane? said Hermione in a hushed voice.
'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging.

J.K. Rowling

#17. Swallowing your words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterward.

Kate Lloyd

#18. I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

E. O. Wilson

#19. If it was that easy, the American military would have figured it out years ago.

Christopher Rankin