#swallow

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

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#adherence #am #because #grounded #hard

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe. ↗

— Kim Novak

#along #because #called #changed #chosen

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#decision #director #else #film #final

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

All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line.
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— Jarod Kintz

#donkey #flying #greatness #ideas #random

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

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family? ↗

— Paul Haggis

#asked #assignment #chew #did #family

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

— Kristin Hersh

#jesus #much #really #swallow #thing

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

#always #complete #feel #i #i feel