Swell Quotes

132 Swell quotes by 118 unique authors

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. — John Hanning Speke
This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains… — Joseph Pilates
No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles of… — Manmohan Acharya
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. — Nia Vardalos
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to… — Louis L'Amour
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of… — Jane Austen
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and… — Charles Loring Brace
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. — John Dryden
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law… — Al Capone
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or… — Ronald Reagan
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and… — Alfred Rosenberg
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward. — Unknown Author
We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear… — Naoko Takeuchi
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. — Ernest Hemingway
The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and… — Khalil
Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;… — Samuel Johnson
The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think.… — Cynthia Hand
The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL. — Albert Camus
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you… — P.J. O'Rourke
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.… — Anna Julia Cooper
The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and… — Anne Sexton
Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers… — Shaun Tomson
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the… — James Russell Lowell
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi

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