Swim Quotes - Page 21

• The peerless cup afloat
  Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
  Swims bearing high above her head.

  Robert Browning

  Lakes, Nymphs, Lilies

  Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.191

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• There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in Old Walden Pond, it soothes them, it renews them. It's a little bit like the pool in Cocoon - I suppose, any power spot is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Energy

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• The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Found, Periods, Great Things

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• Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Air, Bells

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.456

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• This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .

  Italo Calvino

  Zero, Moving, Mean

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.15, Random House

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• I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.

  Rosamund Pike

  Yoga, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

  Dick Francis

  Ideas, Mind, Vision

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• Polar bears can swim 100 miles. They aren't like us. We might be 'stranded' on an ice floe if there's no land nearby, and we had no helicopter and no jet ski. We might be in trouble, but they're polar bears, and they can live in icy cold water by design. They love it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ice, Land, Water

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have a house on the lake, and I must say, sitting on the dock and taking long morning swims or naked swims under the stars, that just brings me back almost immediately.

  Christine Baranski

  Morning, Stars, Lakes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

  Hermann Hesse

  Witty, Men, Thinking

  "Steppenwolf". Book by Hermann Hesse, pp. 15-16, 1927.

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• It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from a biological point of view. But why is it that some people will jump into a freezing river and swim out to a downed plane for total strangers? What is that about? And it seems to be that it's part of your concept of who you are. That's why some people run into the burning buildings, because if they don't, their concept of who they are will be violated. They wouldn't be who they thought they were.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Rivers, Views

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the EU to destroy Syriza by splitting it. There is a German obstinacy and utter refusal to seriously consider an alternative. The reason isn't even a lack of money, because money swims around the EU coffers endlessly, and they could write off the debt tomorrow if they wanted. But they don't want to do so, because of the election of a left-wing government. They want to punish Syriza in public, to humiliate it so that this model doesn't go any further than Greece.

  Tariq Ali

  Writing, Wings, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think Splash made people realize that I was still alive, and I think I inspired a lot of people. I have people coming up to me all the time in the airport saying, "Hey, you inspired me to learn how to swim!" "You inspired me to start moving around more." "You inspired me to start doing more for myself." So that was good. But mostly I took it because nobody had given me a job. And you know what really matters in life, right?

  Louie Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivation, Real, Passion

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• Generally the impulse to find justice through punitive measures can be a kind of quicksand. What James Whitman, the scholar I cite in the chapter of my book, talks about as an urge to level down, I think you see that everywhere. We're going to be a punitive society, so we might as well level out that punitiveness. Bankers and college swim stars and everyone face that same kind of wrath.

  Chris Hayes

  Book, College, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things.

  Tao Lin

  Children, Lying, Book

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Want, Source, Currents

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• Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Football, Team, Gay

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

  Matt Groening

  Family Guy, Cartoon, Adults

  "Matt Groening looks to the future". Interview With Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2009.

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• To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Couple, Swimming

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• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

  Scott Weiland

  Jealous, Tides, Fishes

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• For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick.

  Summer Sanders

  Dream, School, Tv Shows

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