Pool Quotes - Page 14

• Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

  Ze Frank

  Party, Shoes, Looks

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• If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

  Trisha Goddard

  Jobs, Sharks, Media

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• If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Stupid, People, Support

  National Day Rally, 1983.

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• China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Creativity, People, Culture

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

  Eric Shanteau

  Mean, Swimming

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• Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.

  C.P. Snow

  Light, Creative, Black

  "The Two Cultures".

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• Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Mind, Forests

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• These two are the parts. The inner silence - the silence so deep that there is no vibration in your being. You are, but there are no waves. You are just a pool without waves, not a single wave arises. The whole being silent, still. Inside, at the center, silence, and on the periphery, celebration and laughter. And only silence can laugh, because only silence can understand the cosmic joke.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Two, Laughing

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

  Sojourner Truth

  Men, Rights, Water

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• If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Thinking, Fjords

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

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• No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in it and in so doing trust ourselves totally to the one we love. You cannot succeed in love if you keep one foot out on the bank for safety's sake. The very nature of the endeavor requires that you hold on to each other as tightly as you can and jump in the pool together.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love You, Names, Feet

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• You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Dream, Kings, Simple

  Michael Eric Dyson (2009). “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America”, p.3, Basic Books

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• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Orange, Keys

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

  Stephanie Rice

  Love Is, Thinking, Race

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

  Ernest Becker

  Keys, Creative, World

  Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.176, Souvenir Press

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• If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

  Robert Higgs

  Swimming, Floating, Paddling

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• This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

  Shirley Knight

  Dream, Morning, Swimming

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• The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

  Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

  Horse, Class, Racing

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• You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise.

  Jack LaLanne

  Moving, People, Legs

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

  Esther Williams

  Swim, Beverly Hills, Hospitality

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• The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

  Dan Fante

  Book, Passion, Character

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• It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

  Richard Rohr

  Water, Grace, Bottom

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• We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Water, World, Sun

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• The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

  Brownie Wise

  Running, Ocean, Water

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