Throat Quotes - Page 29

• Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

  Liz Jensen

  Seize The Day, Carpe

  Liz Jensen (1998). “Ark Baby”, Overlook Books

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• It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century.

  Bill McKibben

  Cutting, Exercise, Order

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Joy, Birth, Goodness

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.73, Heron Dance Press

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• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Water, Poison

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

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• Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Air, Water, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Penguin

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• Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

  John Cusack

  Years, Mythology, Corporate

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• There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly. The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Moving, Eye, Sleep

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• Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned, defined, his skin warm and smooth. Stroking my palm up over the line of his collarbone, I felt the firmness of his shoulder, the strength of his bicep. I traced my fingers over the black AK, following the lines of the letters. Alex hardly moved as I touched him, his eyes never leaving me. Finally I sighed and dropped my hand. I tried to smile. "I've sort of been wanting to do that ever since that first night in the motel room," I admitted.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

  Matthew Quick

  Heart, Air, Blood

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• She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

  Toni Morrison

  Gratitude, Hurt, Beer

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

  Barbara Johnson

  Pain, Kids, Necks

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Best of Barbara Johnson: Three Bestselling Works Complete in One Volume”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Taken, Destiny

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• When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, 'Him!' Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit [the animal's] throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn't know where meat came from—and I've been a vegetarian ever since.

  Sarah Silverman

  Cute, Dad, Silly

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• The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

  Charlie Daniels

  America, People, Evil

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• Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs.

  Anis Mojgani

  Song, Moving, Blood

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• Each bird must sing with his own throat.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Voice, Bird, Singing

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• Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Government, People

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?

  J. G. Farrell

  Ideas, People, Earth

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• Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

  Shaka

  Military, Enemy, Tribes

  "Shaka Zulu: The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 50, 1955.

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• It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.

  Kristine Lilly

  Team, Faces, Incredibles

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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

  Victor Hugo

  Christmas, Night, Air

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• My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.

  Margaret Drabble

  Iraq, United States, Done

  "I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world" by Margaret Drabble, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 8, 2003.

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• I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Character, Would Be

  "Like Most Libertarians, Iron Man Grows Up and Moves On" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2013.

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• The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Tyrants

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.41, Knopf

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• Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless.
  I forget who said it and I no longer care.

  Ben Marcus

  Men, Hands, Long

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