Swings Quotes - Page 12

• I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

  Nastia Liukin

  Air, Bars, Able

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• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  N. T. Wright

  Eye, Long, People

  "Bishop's Heaven: Is There Life After the Afterlife?" by Martin Bashir, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2008.

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, Levels, Election

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• Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

  Ray LaHood

  Bridges, Rivers, Design

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

  Edward Albee

  Fall, Events, Alliances

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Iron, Guy

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• Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Memories, Heart, Garden

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.127, Delphi Classics

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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Compassion, Wind

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• You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

  Eric Maisel

  Mistake, Might, Execution

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• The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Garden, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.32, Atlântico Press

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• Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.

  Rachel Vincent

  Golf, Littles, Scythes

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.39, Harlequin

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• I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

  Matt Damon

  Strong, Pain, Kids

  "In conversation: Matt Damon". Interview with Brian D. Johnson, www.macleans.ca. March 7, 2011.

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• I was just born to swing, that's all.

  Lil Hardin Armstrong

  Women, Born

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• Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Keys, Doors, Secret

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Trying, Educated

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

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• Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

  Woodie Held

  Baseball, Balls, Forget

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• Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Adventure, Light, Eagles

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11

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• Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

  Bubba Watson

  Mean, Golf, Chance

  "Masters champion Bubba Watson returns to action with 'Bubba golf'" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.

  Sergio Garcia

  Sports, Golf, People

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• As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Technique, Squat

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• The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Bags, Clubs

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• My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Lunch, Looks

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• Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

  Hank Haney

  Simple, Thinking, One Day

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