Allowing Quotes

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.

A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice.

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.

You're either coaching it or allowing it to happen.

So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. “Then you get P for ‘Poor’ ” — Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration — “and D for ‘Dreadful.’ ” “And then T,” George reminded him. “T?” asked Hermione, looking appalled. “Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?” “ ‘Troll,’ ” said George promptly.