Swallowed Quotes
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"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however ... people stay the same. Some grifts last forever, others are swallowed soon enough by time and by the world ."
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More Swallowed Quotes
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
alain badiou— From Plato, Our Dear Plato!. Magazine littéraire, no. 447, November 2005.
It's awf'lly bad luck on Diana Her ponies have swallowed their bits; She fished down their throats with a spanner And frightened them all into fits.
— 1954 A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Hunter Trails'.
To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
john milton— 1665 Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.146-51.
There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.
Michael Stipe— 2001In the DailyTelegraph, 20 Oct.
Being president is like riding a tiger?keep on riding or be swallowed.
harry s. truman— Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 28 Dec1984.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
john wesley— Quoted in R Southey Life ofWesley (1820), ch.16.
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
russell crowe— New York Daily News (2000)
" Oh, Mr. Wolff, what do you think of Balzac? "Josh politely ceased to masticate, swallowed and answered," I never trade them Curb stocks! "
edwin lefèvre— Chapter XXII, p. 265 (See also: New York Curb Exchange)
And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot -But 'I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
— Ballade of Soporific Absorption (1931).
If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.
alexander suvorov— About the Battle of Kinburn, 1787, from "The Book of Military Quotations" By Peter G. Tsouras - Page 138
The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.
elizabeth gould davis— The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
epictetus— Book I, ch. 21.
Since property here exists in the form of stock, its movement and transfer become purely a result of gambling on the stock exchange, where the little fish are swallowed by the sharks and the lambs by the stock exchange wolves.
karl marx— Vol. III, Ch. XXVII, The Role of Credit, p. 440
Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries has swallowed wholesale the lies and distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, man-hating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy ‘research’.
melanie phillips— [7]
Beware you be not swallowed up in books ! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge .
john wesley— Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs.
" Oh, Mr. Wolff, what do you think of Balzac ? " Josh politely ceased to masticate, swallowed and answered, " I never trade them Curb stocks! "
— Chapter XXII, p. 265 (See also: New York Curb Exchange)
Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death where is thy sting, O Grave where is thy victory?
— Paul of Tarsus, in I Corinthians 15:54 - 56.
O they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 1, line 42. The word appears in Beaumont and Fletcher—Mad Lover, Act I. Also in Complaynt of Scotland, written before Shakespeare was born.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
— Francis Bacon Essays (1625), "Of Studies".
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essay, Of Studies.
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men’s minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Illusions, The Conduct of Life (1860).
Show me the men who imbibe the spirit of the world, who choose the company of the world, who imitate the example of the world, conform to the maxims of the world, are swallowed up in the gayety, fashions, and amusements of the world; behold, these are the ungodly, who are brought into desolation as in a moment.
— Gardiner Spring, p. 621. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
russell crowe— Russell Crowe, New York Daily News (2000)[ ]
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
— Book I, ch. 21. (Discourses)
But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.
nikolai bukharin— How It All Began : The Prison Novel, one of Bukharin's final works while in prison, as translated by George Shriver, (1998), Ch.8
Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death where is thy sting, O Grave where is thy victory?
paul of tarsus— I Corinthians 16:54-56
According to some accounts, the Ganga split into seven streams as she emerged from the hair of Shiva , three flowing to the east, three to the west, and the Bhagirathi to the south. This tradition recalls the seven rivers of the Vedic hymns and reminds us that the Ganga in essence waters the whole earth . Indeed, when Bhagiratha brought the Ganga to earth, her waters not only restored the ashes of the dead but also replenished the ocean , which had been swallowed by the sage Agastya .
— Mahabharata, in p.145
