Swings Quotes - Page 2

• Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

  Sam Snead

  Practice, Mind, Habit

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• Swing your swing. I know, I did.

  Arnold Palmer

  Knows

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• What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

  George V. Higgins

  Merry Go Round, Rounds, Loses

  George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Uplifting, Stars, Self Esteem

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• Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moving, Tired, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.201, The Floating Press

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• You have to concentrate on the swing.

  Miguel Cabrera

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• Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Politics, Anarchy, Illusion

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.

  Otis Williams

  Views, Years, People

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• Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

  Duke Snider

  Motivational, Baseball, Balls

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• Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Letting Go

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

  Bob Goff

  Needs

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Aug 11, 2014

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• Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.

  David Leadbetter

  Golf, Perfect, Ifs

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• George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

  Brendan Fraser

  Guy, Cartoon, Vines

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

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• One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus

  Janet Morris

  Mind, Body, Ontology

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.56, Paradise Publishing

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• I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.

  Tim Cordes

  Hurt, Fall, Trying

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• The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

  Amy Poehler

  Graduation, Funny Inspirational, Chance

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• Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Journey, Thinking

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• I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Years, Long, Bipolar

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• My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings

  Jay London

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

  John Updike

  Golf, Trying, Suitcases

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.124, Random House

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• 'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'

  John Green

  Depressing, Dad, Book

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

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• I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

  William Butler Yeats

  Believe, Men, Good Man

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others

  Wynton Marsalis

  Views, Giving, Achievement

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  My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  Patty Duke

  Depression, Recovery, Miracle

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.289, Bantam

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• Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.

  William McDonough

  Nature, Taken, Animal

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.16, Macmillan

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