Swim Quotes - Page 7

• The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

  John Ashbery

  Life, Eye, Soul

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Streams, Fishes

  Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult

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• And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

  Stephanie Rice

  Racing, Able, Pressure

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

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• If the Earth has a soul, it swims in you.

  Kolbein Falkeid

  Soul, Earth, Ifs

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• Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

  Dan Jenkins

  Mother, Children, Hair

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

  Eric Butterworth

  Opportunity, Doors, Grows

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Moving, Men, Differences

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• But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

  Bruce Nauman

  Running, Lap, Used

  "“Setting a Good Corner”". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

  Maya Angelou

  Ocean, Writing, Mountain

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• I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

  Esther Williams

  Beverly Hills, Hospitality, Pool

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• Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did.

  Ryan Ross

  Cancer, Ocean, Kissing

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• Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

  Tom Shadyac

  Letting Go, Needs, Outcomes

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• We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Passion, What Matters, Overcoming

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• Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."

  Mao Zedong

  Past, Wind, Sky

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• I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

  Gretchen Wyler

  Running, Animal, Wings

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• When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

  Barney Frank

  Grateful, Funny Graduation, Yards

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• Fish got to swim, birds got to fly
  I got to love one man till I die
  Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Men, Bird, Helping

  "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (song) (1927)

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• I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didn’t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didn’t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.

  Robert Newton Peck

  Mother, Water, Soul

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• Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Swimming

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• As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Running, Fall, Writing

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin

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• I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

  Mark Warkentin

  Couple, Race, Years

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• I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

  Eric Shanteau

  Thinking

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• Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

  Menno Simons

  Water, Grace, Depth

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• And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

  Bennett Madison

  Ocean

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• Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.

  Robert Noyce

  Ocean, Rivers, Leader

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