Swings Quotes - Page 6

• I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

  John Mellencamp

  Past, Balance, Knows

  "Song: "Between A Laugh And A Tear"". 1985.

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• You don’t swing where you sleep.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sleep

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• I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Thinking, Trying

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• Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

  Rene Crevel

  Needs, Limits, Scope

  René Crevel (1992). “Putting My Foot in it”

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• The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Party, Men, Stronger

  "The Crisis of Conservatism" by E. H. H. Green, London: Routledge, (p. 141), 1996.

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• In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Men, June

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

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• About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

  Tom Clancy

  Running, Country, Destiny

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• Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

  Bobby Helms

  Christmas, Fun, Rocks

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• I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Fun, Kids

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• I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

  David Ortiz

  Player, Giving, Kind

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• My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

  David Ortiz

  Careers, Important, Showers

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 12, 2006.

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• I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

  Harvey Penick

  Believe, Golf, Accidents

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Heart, Maps

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• It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Reality, Assessment, Accepting

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• I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,
  Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

  Q-Tip

  Uncles, Rap, Hip Hop

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• If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Wind, Balls

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• I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J--- is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.

  Woody Harrelson

  Funny, Sex, Yoga

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• Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Simple, Self

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• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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• I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Christmas, Couple, Years

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• Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

  Edd Roush

  Bunting, Bats, Balls

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• If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Running, Home

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• You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

  Henry Ford

  Strong, Stars, Eye

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• There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Rooms

  'David Copperfield' (1850) ch. 35

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• We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Fighting, Hands, Play

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