Swim Quotes - Page 13

• Live or die, sink or swim.

  George Peele

  Sink Or Swim, Dies

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• When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Men, Waiting, Trying

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• Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Running, Discipline, Able

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• I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I was enrolled in a water safety class at five-years-old.

  Michael Phelps

  Children, Opportunity, Years

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• This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?

  Michael W. Smith

  Sea, What If, Today

  Michael W. Smith, Gary Lee Thomas (2000). “This Is Your Time: Make Every Moment Count”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.

  Michael Hersch

  Artist, People, Want

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

  Barbara Ascher

  Running, Grief, Blow

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• I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

  Grace Gummer

  Team, Lacrosse, Hot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?

  Jim Morrison

  Life, Morning, Night

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• You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

  John Eldredge

  Broken, Demand, Arms

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• Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

  Bob Marley

  Swimming, Water, Tough

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• Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Dream, Swimming

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Spring Music," (p. 34), 2000.

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• One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

  Bob Marley

  Good Friend, Water, Reggae

  Song: Misty Morning, Album: Kaya, 1978

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• Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

  John Adams

  Country, Determination, Dies

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.8

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• If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Ice, Dry

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• I swim a lot. I swim most days.

  Ben Barnes

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• My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.

  Patrick Monahan

  Mother, Hair, Talking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Ocean, Feet, Ideas

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Land, Circles

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

  Kurt Busch

  Sharks, Space, Degrees

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• A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.

  Dogen

  Ocean, Practice, Sky

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• Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.

  Amanda Ripley

  Children, Party, Average

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that’s where the good stuff lies.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Lying, Darkness, Feelings

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• If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Needs, Might, Tides

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.243, Penguin

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• It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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