Swingling Quotes & Sayings

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves. — Charles Dickens

We are gods in the chrysalis. — Dale Carnegie

Remember that you are a Black Swan. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist — Dan Brown

These actions have arcane names like braking, retting, swingling (or scutching), and hackling or heckling, but essentially they involve pounding, stripping, soaking, and otherwise separating the pliant inner fiber, or bast, from its woodier stem. It is striking to think that when we heckle a speaker today we use a term that recalls the preparation of flax from the early Middle Ages. — Bill Bryson

propped up a little as her eyes adjusted. She hardly ever got to watch Roarke sleep. Most of the time he rose before she did. And sleep for her tended to be wandering in lucid, often disturbing dreams, — J.D. Robb

I'm not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all. — Julie James

If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up. — John Rhys-Davies

This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America. — Irwin Winkler

MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories. — Swami Vivekananda

Taste has no system and no proofs. — Susan Sontag

Our distrust is very expensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson