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One swallow does not make a summer.

Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Aristotle

'Every man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison.

Bob Dylan

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

Joe Paterno

Chew before you swallow.

George W. Bush

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

Laura Kightlinger

We did a lot of good things. That's why it's so hard to swallow. We did enough good things to win.

Larry Kupczyk

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer

Young children continue to swallow medications, or doses of medications, that were not intended for them. Parents should be vigilant, whether it's storing their own medications, or other medications, or properly administering medications to children.

Dan Budnitz

By giving the larger size, you can monitor your dog while it chews and then take away the smaller pieces before your dog has a chance to swallow the Greenie.

Dr. Diane Levitan

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

Hirohito

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

John Cleveland

These are tough ones to swallow. It shouldn't take us to get down a couple goals to get everybody going.

Patrick Marleau

This is a period when we've just got to take the medicine and swallow it.

George Pipas

This was a hard loss to swallow. We played well. We gave it a good shot. It just got away from us.

Stan Sexton

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff.

Harold Nicolson

I'm 71 years old, and I had no idea you could swallow a pill and have pictures taken of your insides. They've come up with so many things during my life.

Catherine Kent

Some things can swallow other things whole, but this is a chew-up-and-swallow meal.

Stephen Simpson

My mind-set is I'd rather go back out than them tell me I'm done. You can't get better if you don't pitch. It was a tough outing to swallow, but you've got to put it behind you.

Jake Woods

That was definitely a tough one to swallow after coming back so strong [from a 5-2 deficit]. But you can't really sit back and dwell on it. It was over, so we had to move on, and we came out and played well.

Nigel Dawes

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gwendolyn Brooks

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Martha Gellhorn

Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Bible

I go about composing like a factory worker. I punch in. I believe it's written somewhere "Steve Swallow has to sit uneasily at the piano for ten hours before receiving his next idea," so I sit there as patiently as possible. Eventually, an idea always comes, and then the rest is science.

Steve Swallow

He works so hard. It's even hard to swallow because he keeps himself in such good shape.

Gregory Campbell

It's a hard pill to swallow, ... Someone is questioning whether I'm highly qualified when I'm getting a student loan bill for my master's in the mailbox every month.

Wendy Walker

It's a tough one to swallow. It's their decision. I did this enough times last year.

Randy Messenger

It?s tough to swallow. I never like to see a game determined at the foul line. We all watch a lot of basketball and see it happen way too often.

Denise Dillon

For that to happen on the biggest game, on the biggest stage is tough to swallow.

Jarrett Jack

After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back one's grief, but the separation of the living is an endless, unappeasable anxiety.

Tu Fu

That was the best game of the year for Emi. I think she's grown up a little bit. She led the team in scoring, but we need more than that. This (loss) is a hard one to swallow.

Craig Turek

He told me he was going to make me swallow my mouthpiece.

Tyson Chandler

We're going to have to learn from losses like today. It's hard to swallow. It's something we are going to have to remember. Our corps is intact, everyone is coming back. So we can't repeat these mistakes.

Kyle Cieplicki

We're offering various incentives to help make the transition and the housing issue a bit easier to swallow. This is not a new challenge to Chevron. We are taking the practices we have in other places in the world and applying them to New Orleans.

Matt Carmichael

You have to beg, borrow and steal, ... You have to swallow your pride and be able to ask for help, for money. A lot of people are willing to help independent filmmakers if they think there's a chance they're going to finish their film.

Liz Stubbs

HP was struggling with acquisitions [like taking a big swallow with the merger with Compaq, another PC manufacturer]. Now they have taken a step back with smaller acquisitions [like Peregrine].

Chris Foster

What we did, that's all fine and dandy. We can walk around here with our (division championship) hats and shirts. I don't want to take away from what we did. That's a special thing. But nobody remembers any of that if you lose that first (playoff) game when you're at home. That would be a tough pill to swallow.

Bryan Robinson

He pitched good all the way. These guys are just good hitters. It happens. You can't hang your head. We're still in the game. It's just one of those things you have to swallow and put [behind] you.

Gerald Laird

He is more awake, and is able to chew and swallow soft foods. But he is still not able to speak with us.

Dr. Larry Roberts

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.

Mark David Chapman

By following the concept of "one country, two systems," you don't swallow me up nor I you.

Deng Xiaoping

Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.

Greg Anthony

It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing [on Shane Warne].

Arjuna Ranatunga

I believed that inside every fat person was a hole the size of the world; I believed that every fat person wanted to fill that hole by eating the world. It wasn't enough to eat food. You had to swallow air, you had to chew up everyone who got near you. No wonder, I thought, that nobody liked me or liked me all that much.

Judith Moore

It was money. That was a tough one to swallow for them, I think, and Devon made an incredible save. She's a clutch goalie.

Amy Patton

It's a little hard to swallow his reform agenda here.

Rich Judge

It's hard to swallow because we're worried it will happen to us, ... These guys have put their life on the line with the fire department. This is a brotherhood, and we don't want to see them suffer.

Todd Mack

We had to swallow the pill and go on. Tyler took it hard. Down here everybody is a UT fan. We lost a lot of friends over that decision.

Billy Smith

What's nice about him is that he has more confidence in swallowing a pebble and letting the ripples play on the surface, than in making a big splash. He's working less externally. His greatest moments are when he's not even aware of what's registering on his face.

Gore Verbinski

Billy Wilder used to say, 'The best movies have a tiny bitter pill that you want the audience to swallow, but to get to the swallow, you coat it in lots and lots of sugar,'.

Arie Posin

It's a hard pill for D.J. to swallow because that's his job – to try to block shots. He just tried to block a shot and missed.

Del Harris

It was a winnable game. This one is tough to swallow.

Delonte West

When you're sliding at 70-80 mph down the track, you definitely want to be honest with one another, admit mistakes. Sometimes you have to swallow your pride. It's really that communication that's kept us together and had us going fast.

Mark Grimmette

The hundred times I've played The Honors Course, I've never seen anybody make it from below that ridge, and he knocks it in. It was really difficult swallowing that putt.

Carlton Forrester

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Hank Ketcham

Our state government and the bureaucratic agenda is swallowing up the entrepreneurial energy that we need in this state to thrive.

Dave Nabity

We pretty much hurt ourselves. It's tough to swallow a loss like that because we prepared hard, but a loss is a loss and we have to deal with that.

Jason Hall

This was a bitter pill to swallow. This was one we felt we could get. We couldn't pull it off.

Gary Garner

We don't know where it's going wrong, but it's a bitter pill to swallow.

Bob Steel

That's a tough one to swallow, but how proud I am of our guys, for the way they played in overtime. They didn't get down on themselves. That could have been a big momentum change, but our seniors stepped up, especially Andrew Thompson.

Scott Flemming

It will be tough for the girls to swallow it now, but when they look back, they will see all the great things they accomplished.

Tom Sanvik

We gave it to them. It's a little hard to swallow, but you have to look to the future and hope to get better at what you do.

Ashton Whidden

Don't swallow any of that. It'll spoil the taste of the bourbon.

Larry Csonka

I'm an old Unix guy; I had enough trouble putting my data on a SAN , but then you ask me to put a Windows box in the middle ... It was a horse pill to swallow. If it went down, I'd be looking for another job.

John Parrish

It was a very hard defeat to swallow.

Charles Rush

The tax cut we put in place for next year is relatively modest. We probably can swallow that OK, but over the years the size of the tax cut grows exponentially.

Robert Reischauer

I'm getting really tired of that. This one is tough to swallow. We were so close, but I guess it's not meant to be.

Pat Mcdonald

This one was tough to swallow. I've just got to get back on the pace.

Chad Reed

Jerry Maguire: I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?

Jerry Maguire

BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can. A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures. Henry Ward Beecher.

Ambrose Bierce

This is definitely a hard one to swallow, being at home. We've got to find a way to bounce back; we can't lose hope. We can't get knocked down and stay down.

Brittany Wilkins

It's been a struggle for him for a while. He had been having difficulty breathing and swallowing this past week.

Glenn Nakamura

The Yale game was a bitter pill to swallow. We had plenty of opportunity to beat Yale. The bottom line is that I could probably go over ten to fifteen plays in the second half that clearly would have given us the two other points that we needed for the win.

Patrick Knapp

This committee is sick of swallowing the fact that there isn't enough money. We don't want to do that anymore.

Bill Plasko

Second just doesn't cut when you've wrestled long enough. It's a tough thing to swallow when you work your butt of.

Davy Zinke

It's a tough one to swallow. I got to have my first Opening Day. I'd never gotten to experience that, so that's about the best out of it.

Randy Messenger

Countries are still having a hard time swallowing that we want to add a whole new kind of subsidy to the mix here, by putting counter cyclical payments in the blue box.

Jim Grueff

The Zionists will swallow the same bitter drink that each Palestinian family has drunk from before.

Abu Dajana

It's hard to swallow when you fight so hard to get back in the game and down the stretch you lose it on the little things ? loose balls, key rebounds and free throws. It's always hard to lose games like that.

Stromile Swift

People who have been so hurt hesitate to pardon, ... It is so easy to say 'sorry' but in reality here it is difficult to swallow.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

There will have to be some sensitivity employed, but just how that will pan out we're waiting to see. We don't want to restrict development ... but we don't want to swallow up these beautiful brick buildings with giant skyscrapers.

Christine Palmer

I've spoken to Mr Elsworth and he's assured me he is in very good order - he's already beaten two of the best horses in the field (Grey Swallow and Ace in the King George).

John Egan

It?s been a bitter pill to swallow.

Chris Botti

It's a bitter pill to swallow. It's like a grieving process. First, there's feelings of anger and denial, and eventually, some pilots may reach that point of acceptance that this is a necessary sacrifice.

Wade Blaufuss

The extent of the wage and benefit reductions Delphi is seeking would be difficult for any union to swallow easily.

Mark Oline

What you need is backup protection, a way to destroy the data if the machine is stolen, and encryption. With our data destruction, it's like the laptop will swallow cyanide.

Jeff Rubin

Being on the DL and knowing that you are not coming back the rest of the season is not fun at all, ... It was a really tough pill to swallow. Not being able to go on the road trips [stinks]. It's rough.

Chris Duffy

Two solid periods, then two mental lapses. You can't do that. This will be a tough one to swallow the next two weeks.

Kyle Calder

We're paying now for the sins of the past. The mill rate was kept low, even reduced, but the [fund to replace equipment] was stripped and the pension account wasn't funded. Either we swallow the bitter pill now, or take the radical surgery in a few years.

Mayor Sebastian Giuliano

I'm hard on myself over missing open shots and free throws. That was a hard pill to swallow.

Shan Foster

Approximately 2.5 to 3 hours later I received another telephone call from the Nursing Staff stating that they had noticed change of mental status with the patient. Apparently he was having difficulty walking. He was unable to swallow his pills and actually kind of spit the antibiotics out. They felt that the patient was having significant changes.

Robert Blackburn

It's hard to say anything because we got beat by like 70 points in two games. That's hard to swallow. It's embarrassing to me.

Londrick Nolen

We just didn't hit well. We left the bases loaded in the second, and We just kind of shut it down after that. It was a little tough to swallow, but I think they realize next week is more important than one game tonight.

Kenny Simpson

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Aldo Leopold

Each nonprofit is striving to serve more people and really work [its] mission. The thought of spending a couple thousand dollars on technology is hard to swallow and often not covered in the budget.

Jennifer Higgins

It's a hard bullet to swallow with Spikes going down like that, ... It is mixed emotions. But I believe that he would definitely want me to step up and replace him and get the job done.

Angelo Crowell

It's difficult to swallow the defeat. We started well and took the lead, but unfortunately we couldn't sustain it or extend it. It's hard for the players, but they should be proud. In the end, this is football.

Kalusha Bwalya

The Harrison loss was a tough nut to swallow. It feels good to get back to playing good golf. Playing the kind of golf we're capable of playing.

Pat Romano

We're out now and it's definitely hard to swallow. When you don't lose in regulation time for 10 games that's pretty impressive, and to have guys to step up like [goalie Jean-Sebastien] Aubin is good also.

Kyle Wellwood

She can intake air, but she can't swallow on her own.

Denise Monteiro

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

I'm embarrassed for all of us. It's tough to swallow.

Michael Morrison

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Victor Kiam

A bitter pill for them to swallow, it eliminated a lot of risk and allowed them to march forward and build their business.

Marc Cohen

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.

Hugh Macleod

This is a tough one to swallow. I think I'd rather get beat by 25 or 30 than get beat by a point.

Joe Macri

Some dancers have technique they can swallow and spit out but have no idea why they're out there.

Dennis Nahat

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

Gary Lineker

The market is too good right now. It would really be a tough pill to swallow if the market went the other way. That's why all of us want to repair our units.

Donald Mudd

There's no question we're going to be short on those accounts. But when you're dealing with a 15,16, or 17 million dollar budget, you keep things in perspective... we'll have to swallow it and move forward.

Paul Cohen

It doesn't have a bitter or dry finish, ... It finishes quick enough that you want to follow it immediately with another swallow.

Mike Baker

McClatchy is a dolphin swallowing a small whale.

Chuck Richard

I'm really proud of this team. That (Harvard loss) was a really tough pill to swallow.

Bob Gaudet

It's hard to swallow all of those turnovers. It's something we've been working on, trying to get those numbers down.

Drew Carstens

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

William Murray

It's tough to swallow. It was the most disappointing Davis Cup weekend in my career. Twice, twice I was up two sets to love...Got to hold the head high, what does not kill you, can only make you stronger.

Jurgen Melzer

It's hard to swallow. We knew we had to play all 51 minutes. It never seems Williston has good luck. Hats off to Grand Forks. They dug deep and luck bounced their way.

Mikaela Rehak

It's a hard pill to swallow, Spikes going down like that, man. It is mixed emotions. Those shoes are big, but I'm going to go out there and play my game.

Angelo Crowell

It's a hard one to swallow, there is no easy way to put it. I thought our defense did a phenomenal job of shutting down Frey in the first half, but we ended up having trouble with their passing game.

Jim Mccarroll

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Gary Coleman

I finally got to the point during the season when at lunch I couldn't swallow. I had heartburn for quite a while, but it just kept getting worse and worse. When I couldn't swallow and food was actually coming back up, I knew the problem was more than simple heartburn.

John Elway

Sometimes I think that you have to swallow your pride a little bit and know when you are done.

Jason White

That's hard for us to swallow. It's going to be hard for them to swallow. At the same time, we all live in Wake County. Something's got to give.

John Hayden

This is really a tough one to swallow. At this stage of the season, we needed all the points we can get.

Mathieu Dandenault

Nobody anticipates we're going to have close to the level of service we've had in the past. That's going to be tough to swallow.

William Bell

Right now, yes, it is a little hard to swallow. But I'll find the positive in all this to propel me forward and gain strength from it and come out stronger the next time.

Eric Bernotas