#swell

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#either #every #every man #give #growing

Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced. ↗

— Matthew Green

#laced #loosely #maid #swell #talk

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#poor #pride #rich #swell #up

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#buds #february #leaves #sunshine #swells

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#gone #heart #her #indolent #inspire

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#did #eye #feel #go #had

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#cause #condoms #crisis #doctors #having

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#back #baseball #designated #enough #everyone

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#away #being #cliches #course #get

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#calls #children #clearly #e-mails #education