#swallow

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. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#eyes #from time to time #high #i #like

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. ↗

— Aesop

#chewing #complacency #does #else #get

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ↗

— George Carlin

#death #long #long period #over #period

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#death #fame #future #illusion #into

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

#enlightened #fallen #i #into #me

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#jesus #much #really #swallow #thing

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. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#bad #bank #bodies #countries #even

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

#disgusting #encounter #more #morning #nothing

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. ↗

— Mark David Chapman

#i #kept #pent #swallowing #up