Swim Quotes - Page 31

• When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Brother, Anger

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• Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.

  John Fante

  Children, Love You, Home

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.

  Jillian Medoff

  Two, Watches, Tvs

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

  Nneka

  Exercise, Work Out, Way

  "Nneka: Neo-Soulful Voice of Nigeria". Interview with Ebony, www.ebony.com. June 24, 2015.

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• I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships.

  Liam Tancock

  Fun, Years, Safety

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Hair, Blue

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• I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.

  Louise Glück

  Art, Desire, Sound

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• Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Diving Deep, Sea

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• Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

  Henry Miller

  Void, Planets, Ifs

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Letting Go, Hands, Order

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world might look like. And I'll say 'Dive in, man, and go see it. Swim around. You'll be okay.

  Stana Katic

  Men, Rivers, People

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• I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

  Nancy Horan

  Rivers, Want, Sides

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• When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

  P. L. Travers

  Children, Sea, Important

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• The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim.

  Carlos Machado

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Bird, Fishes

  "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (song) (1927)

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• Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water
  in order to learn how to swim.

  Edouard Manet

  Order, Water, Paint

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• I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.

  Alistair Brownlee

  Morning, Four, Fit

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Drinking, Oxygen, Smoking

  "The Guardian - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• All that could run or leap or swim
  Whether in wood, water or cloud,
  Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Running, Nature

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Ocean, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Swimming, Fighting

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• We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them, and in those cases I just have to handle them accordingly. But I do not swim with sharks ... sharks swim with sharks.

  Rihanna

  Sharks, Trying, Share

  Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2015.

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• I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

  Zayn Malik

  Girlfriend, Drowning, Stills

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