#wallow

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda? ↗

— Judith Jamison

#agenda #badly #create #go #going

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hippopotamus #me #mud #soar #wallow

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you. ↗

— Victor Kiam

#business #competition #keep #running #stand

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#life #much #sensitivity #too #too much

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#john-grey #sapphire #swallowed #diet

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#chewed #digested #few #others #some

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

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

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

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