Swollen Quotes
81 Swollen quotes by 73 unique authors
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I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.
— Eva Herzigova
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A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.
— Lisa See
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
— Martial
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If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele…
— Eva Mozes Kor
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What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real…
— Louis C. K.
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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my…
— Black Elk
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
— Mao Zedong
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My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On…
— Charles Baudelaire
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A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten…
— Francesca Lia Block
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His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.
— Jodi Picoult
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
— Christopher Marlowe
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She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard…
— George Orwell
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How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so…
— Maureen Johnson
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I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
— Alice Munro
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what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid…
— William S. Burroughs
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Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still,…
— Patricia Briggs
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When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the…
— David Sedaris
Who Wrote These Swollen Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 81 Swollen Quotes, led by these top contributors: