Swollen Quotes

81 quotes by 74 authors

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. — Andrea Dworkin
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
This path belongs to those who are not cold, whose hearts have not become stone, and whose heads have not become so swollen that they… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families… — Allan Fromme
Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in — Sandra Cisneros
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across? — Gautama Buddha
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks… — Ketzel Levine
You know, my joints don't feel sore as much, I digest food a lot better, my hands feel less swollen so I feel really good, — Michelle Wie
The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the… — Pentti Linkola
My new millionaire idea is one regular shoe and one "swollen" shoe, for when you get bit by a rattlesnake. — Jack Handey
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,… — Mary Oliver
I was numb and I had lots of swollen lymph nodes, my heart was hurting and I had blood clots in my arm and leg. — Corey Haim
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so… — Arthur Schopenhauer
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't… — Jim Butcher
It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to… — Alexandra Bracken
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom… — Ephrem the Syrian
Cows given genetically modified growth hormones make more milk, but have painful swollen udders, have ulcers, joint pain, miscarriages, deformed calves, infertility, and much shorter… — Kevin Trudeau
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals… — Huston Smith

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