58 Swallow Quotes for You to Enjoy

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot

Truth Lie Bitter Find Only Sip Any Swallow Flatters Little Us

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless. John McCain

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

Spring Summer Geese Make Does Swallow March

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. Hank Ketcham

Enjoy Gum Like Chewing Chewing Gum Swallow Flattery

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow. Kinky Friedman

Drinking Admit Did Swallow

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow. Marsha Blackburn

Business Job Every Rule Job Creators More Small Small Business Small Business Owners Entrepreneurs New Obstacle Owners Mandate Swallow Business Owners Regulatory Creators

I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned. Paul Keating

You Confidence Down Earned Top Say Spinach Take Cabinet Like Know Off Swallow Room Used Popeye

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

You Commitment Design Mac Thoroughly About Something Part Takes Primarily Like Looked Well Although Understand How Passionate Chew Up Quickly Get Just Swallow Worked Really

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this. Abu Bakar Bashir

World Advice IMF Muslim Bad Leaders Countries Like Know Powers Western Bank Swallow Bodies Even World Bank

Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response. Adam Driver

Good Happy People Down Too Easily Response Easy Something Polarizing Involved Any Controversial Swallow Uninteresting Actor Challenging Things

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. Alain de Botton

Music Church Nice Swallow Belong

There is a great silver lining to the 45th presidency, which is, it's hard to swallow that he is existing, which gives us the silver lining, which is a great uncovering of the historical disenfranchisement and marginalization of so many people in this country for so long. Asia Kate Dillon

Great People Long Country Presidency Silver Gives He Existing Historical Lining So Many People Swallow Which Us Hard Many

They say you don't want to know how sausage is made. Book coverage is like sausage in that way: better not to know exactly how the gatekeepers of mainstream media choose which books to crown as must-reads each season - just swallow it down with a cold beer and call it a night. Camille Perri

Beer You Book Better Made Down Cold Books Way Say Exactly Crown Mainstream Mainstream Media Like Know Call How Coverage Just Want Swallow Which Choose Each Media They Say Season Night Sausage Gatekeepers

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing. Christopher Paolini

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I'll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I'll be in love with cucumber farms. David Seltzer

Love Myself Me You Pride Will Become Imagination Tell Able Enthusiastic About Direction Write Hours Cucumber Go Any Being Screenplay Anything Swallow Hard Farms

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it. Gary Lineker

You Somebody Crowd Got Swallow

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. George Savile

Man Men Cheated Chew Being Endure Swallow Many Ever

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck. Gretchen Rubin

Happiness Good Master Our Our Lives Television Bad Buck Quantities Without Huge Up Bang Swallow While Much Servant Lives

What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.' Halle Berry

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. Henry Adams

Man Digest Must More He Than Swallow Belief Now

Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling. Imran Tahir

Feeling Every Always Losses Same Swallow Hard

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