Best 160 quotes in «swim quotes» category

I decided to try things, and I started to do things that would take me out of my comfort zone, and a lot of the times, that will cause you to either sink or swim. Really, I just lean on my inner circle and my faith to try to continue to encourage me so that I'm never out. I can be down, but I'm never out.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

I have a vision in my hand that the labels have these vaults, like Scrooge McDuck, except instead of gold coins they have these demo CDs, and sometimes they just go in there and take a swim.

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

If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.

I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.

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

I love the water; I love to swim.

I loved Ian in the now, the way he looked at me, how he made my stomach swim, how he held my hair when I was puking my guts up after eating a bad enchilada. That’s love.

I love to swim. I need goggles. If I don't have goggles I run in to the walls of the pool. I have no sense of directions.

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

I swim three times a week.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

It's very important to older male homosexuality in Los Angeles to have a pool, so that cute boys will come to your house and swim around in the pool.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

My training centered on aerobic development, meaning I'd swim longer with less intensity during the majority of my practices. As I got older, I began more weight training, and my workouts went from long at a lower intensity to shorter and more intense.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Once I learned to swim, I learned that there were waves.

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.