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Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp
If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.
There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death
We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.
I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.
Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.
"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."
I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.
the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.
Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.
Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the gators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to clean out the swamp.
We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.
Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.
Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.
A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.
Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.
I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.
Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.
we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.
Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.
Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?" Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.
I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I do keep a journal, but it's neither very revealing nor fruitful for work. Stuff just bubbles up from the swamp later.
You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort.
Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.