Swim Quotes

732 Swim quotes by 575 unique authors

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to… — Jeannette Walls
I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net. — Deb Caletti
Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls… — Max Allan Collins
And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to… — Kelley Armstrong
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged… — Ivo Andric
I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill… — Nikos Kazantzakis
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be… — Walt Whitman
You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific.… — U.G. Krishnamurti
I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand… — Tabitha Suzuma
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically,… — Louise GluÌˆck
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. — Joseph Campbell
Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each… — Ellen DeGeneres
Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim… — Rick Riordan
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within… — Maya Angelou
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but… — Junot Diaz
Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups!… — Unknown Author
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them… — Bob Dylan
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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… — J.A. Redmerski
I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood. — Lauren DeStefano
People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the… — William Wharton
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy. — Jodi Picoult
My body melts into his hard one until his strong arm, coiled around my small waist, is all that hols me upright. I don't know… — Katy Evans

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