#wallow

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

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family? ↗

— Paul Haggis

#asked #assignment #chew #did #family

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

#enlightened #fallen #i #into #me

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems. ↗

— John Hawkes

#interesting #knowledge #more #much #problem

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

#bad #bank #bodies #countries #even

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#bible #had #i #jonah #said

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#did #drinking #guinness #i #swallow

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beauty #into #miserable #recycle #things

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this. ↗

— Paul Newman

#hard #sometimes #swallow #up #use

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#body #call #fat #goat #i