Swimming Quotes - Page 10

• Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

  Percy Cerutty

  Pain, Love Pain, Embrace

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• Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

  Bradley Whitford

  People, Looks, Actors

  "Bradley Whitford on Happyish, The West Wing, and his high heels on Transparent". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. June 16, 2015.

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• People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

  Michael Caine

  Order, People, Kidneys

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  James G. Frazer

  Prayer, Sea, Rivers

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

  Arthur Ernest Morgan

  Adventure, Levels, Swim

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• If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.

  George Polya

  Water, Wish, Problem

  George Polya (1981). “Mathematical Discovery”, John Wiley & Sons Incorporated

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• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Hate, Jumping, Water

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• Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Goal, Reaching, Reaching Your Goals

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• Prosperity Gospel”. At his United Church Science of Living Institute in New York he would tell his congregation “close your eyes and see green. Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a swimming pool.

  Reverend Ike

  New York, Eye, Church

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• Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

  William Saroyan

  Hunting, Fishing, Riding

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

  Ryan Lochte

  Needs, Looks, Beats

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• Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

  Eric Shanteau

  Mean, Pool

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• I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.

  Arjun Rampal

  Sports, Running, Thinking

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• Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

  Michael Phelps

  Race, Years, Relax

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• It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

  Laura Moriarty

  Eye, Years, Underwater

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• There is always room at the top.

  Daniel Webster

  Motivational, Success, Life Changing

  When advised not to become a lawyer as the profession was overcrowded

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• I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

  Karl Pilkington

  Awards, Certificates

  "Karl Pilkington On Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe Show: I Don’t Watch Or Understand Awards". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2012.

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• When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Sorry, Smart

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• I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Drinking, Kissing, Aqua

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• You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

  Bob Dylan

  Change, Stones

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• Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

  Bertolt Brecht

  Dog, Morning, Book

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• There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

  Franz Kafka

  Fighting, Order, Laughing

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• Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.

  Paullina Simons

  Summer, Children, Heart

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• What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Ocean, Ignorance, Culture

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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