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Tag Name "Swallow" (246)

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When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
Emily Giffin
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Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
Diane Johnson
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I've got one of Darwin's books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is true, like that the giraffe has a long neck so it can reach the leaves. But I just don't think you can swallow the whole piece.
Mel Gibson
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And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.
Delmore Schwartz
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I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
Kinky Friedman
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My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.
Harry Secombe
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.
David Eddings
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I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.
Ted Nugent
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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
Rabindranath Tagore
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She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don’t chew.” “Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them.
Ilona Andrews
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.
Adolf Hitler
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Drink this, she says. What is it? my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. What's going to happen? Can't tell you that. Just trust me. I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.
Veronica Roth
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They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
Charles Bukowski
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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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
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You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.
Austin O'Malley
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Hank Ketcham
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In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.
Carlos Salinas
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.
Paul Gauguin
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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
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It's hard to swallow your pride. That's why I slather mine in mayonnaise.
Stephen Colbert
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You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.
Craig Silvey
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