Swimming Quotes - Page 29

• I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Thinking, Water

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Crush, Letting Go, Butterfly

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• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

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• We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Men, Past, Space

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

  Henry Miller

  Faces, Drowning

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.

  Holly Black

  Halloween, Thinking, Voice

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

  Billy Mills

  Giving Up, Believe, Given

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• I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

  Janet Fitch

  Want, Fishes, Catch Me

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• I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brother, Peter. I asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry world going?' 'Okay,' I said, 'except that a couple of weeks ago I realized that I don't know why Jesus had to die.' Then Peter, without skipping a beat, without even a moment's hesitation, said, 'Well, neither did Jesus.'

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Couple, Engineering

  "More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations".

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• Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

  Marianne Limpert

  Motivational, Athlete, People

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• Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Exercise

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• I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Fall, Expression

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, May, Make A Wish

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• ... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

  Tracy Kidder

  Ocean, May, Middle

  Tracy Kidder (2009). “Strength in What Remains”, Random House

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• Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

  David Eddings

  Rocks, Feet, Wells

  David Eddings (1982). “Queen of Sorcery”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.

  Kabir

  Book, Ivory, Water

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Race

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• I love swimming because racing.

  Ryan Lochte

  Racing, I Love Swimming

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• If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

  Joe Teti

  Guy, Survival, Would Be

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• I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Limits, Wells

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• After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

  Sam Walton

  Real, Persistence, Secret

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

  Kieren Perkins

  People, Overcoming, Swimmer

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• I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Grateful, Hockey

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

  Sean Connery

  Golf, Swings, Trying

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