Swimming Quotes - Page 5

• Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Mediocre

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• Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

  Dennis Adonis

  Sea, Contentment, Tuna

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• Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

  Barbara Sher

  Thinking, Water, Quantum Leap

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• ... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  White, Sailing, Together

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.824, e-artnow

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• I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

  Stevie Smith

  People, Fish Tanks, May

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

  Francis Chan

  Rivers, Life Is, Christ

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.67, David C Cook

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• ‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Names, Light, Sight

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2010). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

  John Shelby Spong

  Church, Noise, Pool

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• My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Baseball, Angel, Winning

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• wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Eye, Thinking

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• I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

  Mia Hamm

  Gymnastics, Track, Fields

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• I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

  Woody Harrelson

  Clothes, Trying, Cotton

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• There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

  Oliver Herford

  Motivational Sales, Rooms, Inspirational Success

  Oliver Herford, Ethel Grant, Addison Mizner (2017). “The Complete Cynic”, p.17, Litres

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• I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.

  Gayle Forman

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Eye

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.135, Penguin

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• I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

  James Joyce

  Rose, Whole

  James Joyce, Michael Groden (1978). “Ulysses, "Ithaca" & "Penelope": a facsimile of placards for episodes 17-18”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.

  Jay Asher

  Strong, Currents

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2011). “The Future of Us”, p.188, Penguin

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• Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  James A. Michener (2007). “Chesapeake”, p.278, Ballantine Books

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• I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.

  Marisa Miller

  Ocean, Balance, Week

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• I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

  Roger Moore

  Play, Tennis, Skiing

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• Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

  Stan Musial

  Hitting, Never Forget, Forget It

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• When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Sea, Important, Acting

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• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  Gary Oldman

  Father, Heart, Issues

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• I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Blue, Tuna

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• I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again.

  Gayle Forman

  Letting Go, Thinking, Hands

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• She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rocks, Found

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