Top 100 Quotes About Swallowing
#1. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#2. I won't just be swallowing my pride; I'll be choking on it.
Wendy Higgins
#3. He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage,
P.G. Wodehouse
#4. When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
Albert Einstein
#5. I have become used to swallowing insults for so long that I am almost insensitive; yet
John Calvin
#6. Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.
Stephen Colbert
#7. I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.
Mark David Chapman
#8. In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.
Jose Andres
#9. The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. And the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.
Mo Yan
#11. We smell the impact of traffic and humans. Humans and traffic. Back and forth. We taste our moment, swallowing it, knowing it. We feel our nerves twitching inside our stomaches, lunging at our skin from beneath.
Markus Zusak
#13. Living as human being and as a divinity.
moving from tension into relaxation,
from relaxation into trance,
from trance into a more intense contact with other people.
from that contact back into tension and so on,
Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox.
Patricia Briggs
#15. She licked her lips, swallowing a few times before her soft voice reached him. "It makes no sense, but I'm glad my date never showed. I think I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be tonight.
Jennifer Kacey
#16. Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.
Zen Cho
#17. Greasy burgers and fries are so much more delicious than swallowing a cow whole.
Sarah Nicolas
#18. Without reply Joel made his way to follow Alex and the girls up to the lift. Swallowing a lump in my throat I grabbed my board and ran to catch up. I had a feeling that Joel was capable of turning even fun into work.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#19. She gazes into her own pupils and sees the void that opened up inside of her, swallowing everything like some black hole of happiness ...
Matthew Quick
#20. White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#22. What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.
Sophie Ristelhueber
#23. It's swallowing down the memories that turn the world so black.
Jennie Fields
#24. I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.
David Cross
#25. By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill
#26. Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency.
Ann Voskamp
#27. Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. Fraser stood quite still for a moment, breathing slowly and regarding Woodbine as a tiger might regard a hedgehog: yes, he could eat it, but would the inconvenience of swallowing be worth it?
Diana Gabaldon
#29. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London
Charles Dickens
#30. True charity, I had discovered, consists in swallowing an invisible flaming sword.
Alan Bradley
#31. How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute ... And rolling my eyes the next.
Michele Jaffe
#32. Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.
M.F.K. Fisher
#33. What we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ.
John Piper
#34. So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
Woodrow Wilson
#35. In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.
Andy Behrman
#36. This is how the darkness is. It knows nothing else. It fills crevices, pushing into the finest, narrowest corners, ascribing no meaning to the events that it carries, but birthing and then swallowing them again as they expire.
Jason Gurley
#37. Yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. It's simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didn't count or wasn't good, and an hour later we're back looking for something to make us feel better.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#38. Swallowing, there were other things that didn't come automatically to him. For instance, he couldn't eat. He couldn't talk. He
R.J. Palacio
#39. Dr. Patel nodded. "You are a very smart man, John. I am curious to know why you never went to college?" John shrugged. "I thought I would. But I fell in love and got married." He started to say more, but his throat caught. Swallowing hard, he continued with difficulty. "Plans change.
Forrest Carr
#40. She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass.
Do you own a briefcase? I ask her, swallowing.
Bret Easton Ellis
#41. Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of capture by enemy troops - that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating.
Michael Chabon
#42. I'm supposed to eat shit with a fork and a knife and say thank you when I'm done swallowing this crap?
Brandi Glanville
#43. Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!
Georgette Heyer
#44. Every touch ramped her desire higher and the carnal look in Chad's eyes was making swallowing difficult.By the time the waiter served their coffee, she was ready to throw him down on the table and ravish him in front of God and everybody.
Tamara Hoffa
#45. Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.
Bill Hicks
#46. Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene lamp and let the ghosts fly their asses off
Jack Kerouac
#47. When you stand at the abyss, you fall to your knees and you fucking grab for any comfort, any little thing to keep it from swallowing you whole.
T.A. Webb
#48. 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
#49. What?" I asked, swallowing a mouthful.
"You remind me of me."
"That can't be good." I took another mouthful.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#50. I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year's cupful and downward into a decade's quart and downward into a lifetime's ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman's float.
Anne Sexton
#51. The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.
Paul Auster
#52. I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up
John Bunyan
#53. Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -
Thomas Harris
#54. A prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after
Charles Dickens
#55. Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin
#56. Rip the page out of the small notebook and clutch it close, actively swallowing the hysteria tickling every broken moment in my mind.
Tahereh Mafi
#57. Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.
Sharyn McCrumb
#59. I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.
Veronica Roth
#60. This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate.
Kiran Desai
#61. I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?
Dean Koontz
#62. That's how I love you, you know?" he says, swallowing slowly and meeting my eyes. "With everything.
Ginger Scott
#63. If Nana thinks you're trying to scam her, she'll tell you, and if she thinks you ruined her life by discontinuing Arnold's Thin bread, she'll let you know that, too. I guess when you spend eighty-seven years swallowing other people's bullshit, there comes a time when you gotta spit some back.
Laurie Notaro
#64. For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.
Marisha Pessl
#65. In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow ...
William Henry Hudson
#66. Oh, also, if Mr. Ortega catches me writing you this letter, I am committed to shoving it in my mouth and swallowing. I hope I can count on the same commitment from you.
Kasie West
#67. No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
Marian Keyes
#68. Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#69. The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.
Cleveland Amory
#70. I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. Jacobs
#71. 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
#72. Rosalie sat sideways in her chair, shaking from the laughter she was swallowing. I imagined myself drawing a gun from desk, taking aim, and killing her without so much as a quiver.
Wally Lamb
#73. The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
Joseph Campbell
#74. Toothless crossed his eyes and made a gulping noise with his throat as if he was swallowing ...
"AAAAAAARGH!" screamed Hiccup.
Toothless spat Ziggerastica onto the floor.
"Only j-j-joking," he said.
Cressida Cowell
#75. Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. - MALACHY MCCOURT
Katherine Crowley
#76. Then she sat on the couch and just sighed. A short time later, after swallowing a few little round colored "candies" from a jar in the bathroom cabinet, she appeared to calmed down
Linda Hamner
#77. The best part is coming."
"What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?"
"No. That's the finale.
Stephenie Meyer
#78. May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
#79. Why, when a man has friends, they are not only to offer him a glass of wine, but, moreover, to prevent his swallowing three or four pints of water unnecessarily!
Alexandre Dumas
#80. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Charlotte Bronte
#81. The clock chimed five. It sounded almost celebratory as they stood there, hands clasped between them like the meeting of continents. Colton's mouth was soft and warm, sunlight on silk. Danny was swallowing light. It dived down inside of him until he imagined it bursting out of every pore.
Tara Sim
#82. And yet,' Gamache continued in a pleasant voice, 'isn't that what's often taught in meditation? Not the absence of emotion, or swallowing them, but not allowing them to run the show?
Louise Penny
#83. Swallowing hard, he pushed on. "Show me how to trust in you, Lord. Show me how to give you all of me, and not just the parts I'm willing to give. I ask these things in the name of your Son, Jesus. Amen.
JoAnn Durgin
#84. I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile?
Douglas Kennedy
#85. Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.
Georgette Mosbacher
#86. I think I'm in love," he said after swallowing. "I could marry that pie."
"According to the anti-gay crowd, that'll be next," said Nan. "Pies and sheep.
Michael Thomas Ford
#87. The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
Campbell Scott
#88. The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.
Thomas Paine
#89. He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.
William Golding
#90. Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life ... love gives us a fairy tale." "It's how I feel," he said, swallowing hard. "I think I've been in love with you since I was fifteen years old.
Melissa Brown
#91. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing
Charles Dickens
#92. Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
Susanna Kaysen
#93. Lion had to kiss her then and there, even though when he kissed her he felt as though he were swallowing her sadness.
Alice Hoffman
#94. Would he be able to kill when the procedure was done? He took a sip of the bitter coffee, swallowing it down along with his trepidation. It was his obsession that he wanted to remove, not his ability.
Bey Deckard
#95. Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. Adisa says the word assimilation with so much venom that you'd think anyone who chooses it - like I did - is swallowing poison. It
Jodi Picoult
#97. He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I ... I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.
Susanna Clarke
#98. And she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Blindness like the kind that leads men to perpetrate horrors, animal drunkenness, the jungles of the mind.
Alden Bell
#99. The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#100. All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
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