Swim Quotes
732 Swim quotes by 575 unique authors
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I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that…
— Donald Miller
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
— Norton Juster
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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move,…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and…
— Erich Fromm
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It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a…
— Matthew Henry
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Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
— John Steinbeck
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or…
— Fatema Mernissi
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It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been…
— Margaret George
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You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put…
— Alex Garland
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When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will…
— Jodi Picoult
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But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.…
— Billy Collins
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish…
— Lloyd Alexander
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The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated.…
— Bryce Courtenay
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You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.
— Suzanne Collins
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All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.
— Meg Rosoff
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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.
— Craig Ferguson
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What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but…
— Cassandra Clare
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Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became…
— Tom Robbins
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Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then,…
— Jamie O'Neill
Who Wrote These Swim Quotes
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