#wallow

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

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#did #drinking #i #swallow

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#gradually #habit #homey #i #i came

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#clean #dirty #else #frequently #giving

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#been #certain #certain point #choice #decide

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

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

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. ↗

— Barack Obama

#great #i #lincoln #swallow #view

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

— Joe Paterno

#like #poison #publicity #swallow #unless