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Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die. — Anna Banks

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

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. — Winston Churchill

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. — Marisha Pessl

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time. — Henri Frederic Amiel

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud. — Jose Andres

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

I kissed her, just a gentle brush of my lips across hers. It was like swallowing a tiny drop of something incredibly sweet. — Stephen King

I have become used to swallowing insults for so long that I am almost insensitive; yet — John Calvin

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears? — Dean Koontz

Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing — Ray Hartley

And the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight. — Mo Yan

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. — John Arbuthnot

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

Swallowing pride rarely gives you indigestion. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up — John Bunyan

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

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

I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat. — James Ellroy

Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely. — Maurice Sendak

Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. - MALACHY MCCOURT — Katherine Crowley

Freedom shouldn't move like an arrow, in a singular direction. It should flow like an ocean, swallowing the whole horizon. — Romina Russell

Greasy burgers and fries are so much more delicious than swallowing a cow whole. — Sarah Nicolas

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

The night, like a well, was swallowing stars. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

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

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences. — Mike Birbiglia

No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride. — Chris Brady

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. — A. J. Jacobs

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. — Woodrow Wilson

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds. — Andy Behrman

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

The pain feels like a hole swallowing her up, a source of intense fear and yet, at the same time, a strange, quiet peace. — Han Kang

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. — George Carlin

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

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, by not swallowing them. — Charles Edward Montague

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

The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. — Erich Fromm

He shot back the drink, swallowing his thoughts along with it. Dreaming was for people with nothing better to do. — Marissa Meyer

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. — Robert A. Heinlein

Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency. — Ann Voskamp

That arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been — Charles Dickens

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole. — Zen Cho

What?" I asked, swallowing a mouthful.
"You remind me of me."
"That can't be good." I took another mouthful. — Courtney Allison Moulton

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there! — Stephen Bruner

It's swallowing down the memories that turn the world so black. — Jennie Fields

By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach. — Winston S. Churchill

swallowing a spoonful of butternut squash soup, feeling it coat my throat and slide down to my belly. — Jennifer Handford

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier. — Bill Hicks

White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Like breathing and swallowing, crying comes automatically to most kids, too. — R.J. Palacio

Arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of — Charles Dickens

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

He took a deep breath, as if he were taking the air from my own lungs and swallowing it for himself. — Alyson Richman

It wasn't easy, but she was used to swallowing. — Lilith Saintcrow

You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves. — Richard K. Morgan

It had been like swallowing a gust of October wind. — Stephen King

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet. — Ozzy Osbourne

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

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

It seems that the merest breeze causes me to bleed. Each breath feels like I'm swallowing glass. — Kaori Ozaki

He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage, — P.G. Wodehouse

Sometimes in a marriage, it is easier to just buy peace and pay the price of swallowing your ego and keeping quiet. — Preeti Shenoy

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips. — W.C. Fields

I'm running blind, ghosts swallowing me. — Kathleen Glasgow

Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in. — Maureen Corrigan

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

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

He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up. — William Golding

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

That's how I love you, you know?" he says, swallowing slowly and meeting my eyes. "With everything. — Ginger Scott

I felt a rush of relief and pleasure so dense it was like swallowing a ball of light. Jesus. This love thing was not for wimps. — Eli Easton

Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show — Shannon Lynette

The best part is coming."
"What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?"
"No. That's the finale. — Stephenie Meyer

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

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. — Mark David Chapman

I won't just be swallowing my pride; I'll be choking on it. — Wendy Higgins

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

Are you naked?" he rasped out.
Swallowing hard, she nodded. — Katie Reus

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

Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches. — John D. Barrow

True charity, I had discovered, consists in swallowing an invisible flaming sword. — Alan Bradley

Best stop swallowing, you're like to choke on it. — George R R Martin

Swallowing your words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterward. — Kate Lloyd