#wallow

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#become #ever #happy #hard #i

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#bad game #even #feel #feel good #game

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#although #chew #commitment #design #get

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#around #begged #beyond #choosing #could

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#geese #make #march #spring #summer

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

— Barack Obama

#great #i #lincoln #swallow #view

There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it! ↗

— Cliff Richard

#couple #done #drink #easy #honey

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. ↗

— John H. Speke

#buffalo #dark #dark places #delighting #especially

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#unrequited-love #wallowing #love

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

— George Carlin

#death #long #long period #over #period