Quotes of Swim - somelinesforyou

“ If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned. ”

- Dr. Boris Sokoloff

“ Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. ”

- Liv Ullmann

“ It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged. ”

- Lord Byron

“ In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. ”

- David Smith

“ In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. ”

- Arthur Stringer

“ In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! ”

- Jonathan Winters

“ People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ”

- Ann Landers

“ Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle? ”

- Ed Cotter

“ Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. ”

- John Wilmot

“ But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind. ”

- Rupert Brooke

“ Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. ”

- Unknown

“ I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train. ”

- Tracy Caulkins

“ I swam my brains out. ”

- Mark Spitz

“ In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Never offer to teach a fish to swim. ”

- Unknown

“ People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim. ”

- Unknown

“ Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ”

- E. W. Dijkstra

“ To me, the sea is like a person — like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. ”

- Gertrude Ederle

“ We don't strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, nor swim in an ocean and drown in a puddle. ”

- Taylor Caldwell

“ Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. ”

- Gloria Anzaldúa

“ The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ”

- Macaulay

“ Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a life one to swim upstream. ”

- W.C. Fields
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