Swim Quotes - Page 4

• On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

  Will Smith

  Feet, Holding On, Bigs

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• A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

  William Lawson

  Garden, Desire, Pleasure

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• I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, That's it.

  Brooke Burns

  Girl, Swimming, Night

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• This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Taken, Voice, Broken

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• Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Islands, Paradise

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• In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Organization, Mind

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• Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Rocks, Assessment, Littles

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• Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Swimming

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• Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.

  John Keats

  Sky, Space, Bards

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 9 (1817)

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• A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

  Marie Corelli

  Morning, Hunting, Bird

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• If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?

  Bo Burnham

  Jesus, Land, Water

  Song: #Deep, 2013

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• I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

  Mark Gatiss

  Awful, Leisure, Used

  "What I see in the mirror: Mark Gatiss" by Mark Gatiss, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• There's a double beauty whenever a swan
  Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

  Thomas Hood

  Lakes, Swans, Swan Lake

  Thomas Hood (1861). “Poems ... Thirteenth edition”, p.159

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• What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.

  Osamu Dazai

  Powerful, Sea, Water

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

  Amanda Beard

  Want, Enjoy, Let Me

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• I don't even know how to swim!

  Lea Thompson

  Jiu Jitsu, Know How, Knows

  Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

  Ma Ying-jeou

  Thinking, Important, Tests

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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• Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles.  Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Heart, Young Friends

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.41, SPCK

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• At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Strong, Children, Feel Better

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• I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

  Toni Servillo

  Life Changing, Thinking, Sea

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• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  Yunjin Kim

  Nice, People, Use

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• Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Player, Sharks, Sea

  Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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• On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

  Georg Simmel

  Hands, Personality, Sides

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Running, Beach, Workout

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• Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

  Ovid

  Hook, Unlikely, Fishes

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