Swim Quotes - Page 30

• We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Life And Love, Understanding, Wish

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

  Bernard Manning

  Funny, Witty, Sleep

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

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• Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

  Max Allan Collins

  Trust Me, Overboard, Throwing

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• Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold." Question: What's the probability they will kiss?

  Jenny Downham

  Girl, Math, Kissing

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.327, Random House

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• Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. Anyway, being a fish, you knew how to swim. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Mean

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• Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

  Brené Brown

  Peace, Swimming, Courageous

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• I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim.

  Gail Carriger

  Hands, Made, Fishes

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• Focusing is about saying No.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Swimming, Power

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Courage, Lakes, Two

  "The Courage to Stand Alone: Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by Ellen J. Chrystal (Part III: Nice Meeting You, and Goodbye), 2001.

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• Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

  David Nicholls

  Years, Salmon, Urges

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• I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Running, Horse, Fire

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• She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims.

  Arundhati Roy

  Flower, Eye, Hair

  FaceBook post by Arundhati Roy from Feb 17, 2017

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• Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

  Juliet Marillier

  Fire, Sky, Giving

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

  Tim Burton

  Running, Hero, Boys

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• Is it really sick for me to be happy right now?" I asked. My voice broke twice. He didn't push me away. He pulled me tight against his ice-hard chest, so tight it was hard to breathe, even with my lungs securely intact. "I know exactly what you mean," he whispered. "But we have lot of reasons to be happy. For one, we're alive." "Yes," I agreed. "That's a good one." "And together," he breathed. His breath was so sweet it made my head swim.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sweet, Mean, Ice

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• You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables. Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale." "Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." "But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Sweat, Tables

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

  Deb Caletti

  Sometimes, Knows

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Eye, Cutting

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• I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Sea, Breathing

  Walt Whitman (2017). “Leaves of Grass”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath his baggy swim trunks—so weighted down with water that they had sunk somewhat dangerously low on his hips—lurked what appeared to be an exceptionally well-formed gluteus maximus)

  Meg Cabot

  Hair, Water, Vision

  Meg Cabot (2008). “Tommy Sullivan is a Freak”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Castles, Moats, Want

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• I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sexy, Growing Up

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.16, Random House

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• I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

  Scott Speedman

  Levels, Injury, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sink or swim! You never really feel ready, there is always sometime more that your mind tells you you should be doing. However, the trick is to be able to show up and perform no matter what the circumstance.

  Natalie Cook

  Mind, Matter, Able

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• Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.

  Robert Munsch

  Book, Reading, Writing

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