Swim Quotes
732 Swim quotes by 575 unique authors
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We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a…
— China Mieville
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Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.
— Sarah Dessen
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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…
— Nancy Horan
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You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack…
— Ally Carter
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Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago.…
— Nicole Krauss
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I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with…
— Gail Carriger
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If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.
— Pittacus Lore
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The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
— Joseph Campbell
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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play…
— Lord Byron
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We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the…
— Mark Twain
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I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could…
— Stephenie Meyer
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There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise.…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides…
— Emily Giffin
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Focusing is about saying No.
— Steve Jobs
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By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I…
— Steve Erickson
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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
— Mark Twain
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But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.
— Karen White
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...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will…
— Ted Dekker
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I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?
— Sarah Dessen
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You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre…
— Jay Asher
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Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips…
— Holly Black
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Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in,…
— Lauren Oliver
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She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She…
— Arundhati Roy
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If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn…
— Brené Brown
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