#swallow

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#bat #harbinger #returning #sound #spring

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. ↗

— Barry White

#find #forced #hypocrisy #i #my own

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. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#away #because #certain #chew #chewing

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.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

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

— Joe Paterno

#like #poison #publicity #swallow #unless

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

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

#swallowing #words #anger

Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it. ↗

— Steve Burns

#just #like #much #swallow #you

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#clothing #clown #compromised #could #different

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

— Kristin Hersh

#jesus #much #really #swallow #thing