#wallow

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#like #poison #publicity #swallow #unless

The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#clearly #devastating #does #earth #effective

Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it. ↗

— Steve Burns

#just #like #much #swallow #you

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

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

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

#islands #large #little #look #prisons

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#disgusting #encounter #more #morning #nothing

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#country #earth #gave #i #just

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#digest #man #more #must #swallow

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves. ↗

— George Lopez

#awful #because #bottle #calm #character