Swim Quotes - Page 32

• After the clinch, it doesn't matter what happens, one way or another, we're going to hit the ground, and we'll be in my world. The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim.

  Carlos Machado

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

  Heidi Klum

  Swimming, Order, Sharks

  "Heidi Klum: Fashion Shows Are Not My Thing". Parade Magazine Interview, parade.com. July 10, 2008.

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• The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

  Tim Cahill

  Sharks, Knives, Use

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• I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

  Rachel Cusk

  Believe, Ocean, Moving

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House

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• Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

  George Sand

  Ocean, Writing, Mean

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

  John Ray

  Wine, Water, Sauce

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.23

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• I swim three times a week.

  Ken Livingstone

  Three, Week, Three Times

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• I love the water; I love to swim.

  Keri Hilson

  Water

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• So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

  Mary Oliver

  Judging, Flow, Inward

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• We swim in an ocean of feedback.

  Sheila Heen

  Ocean, Feedback

  Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen (2014). “Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well”, p.12, Penguin

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• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Leadership, Individuality, Progress

  Radio Times 9 July 1964

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• I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.

  Shirley Manson

  Children, Fighting, Happy Life

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• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  John Lennon

  Children, Ocean, Sleep

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood". Book by Kevin Osborn, p. 134, October 1, 1999.

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• I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.

  David Duchovny

  Ocean, Thinking, Sharks

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• The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! If your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.

  Robert E. Murray

  Husband, Father, Heart

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• I love to swim, and I love being near water.

  Kim Edwards

  Love Is, Water

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• I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

  PJ Harvey

  Always Trying, Trying

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• I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

  Karen Russell

  Ponies, Desperate, Superhuman

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• Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

  Charles Saatchi

  Swimming, Whales, People

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• In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.

  Lewis Nordan

  Baby, Sweet, Dark

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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• No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Nature, Ocean, Naked

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• You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

  Margaret Millar

  Trouble

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• I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

  Barry Goldwater

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Men, Thinking, Japan

  "Satires (satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  Pamela Anderson

  Marine, Animal, Circles

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