Changed Quote by Gail Carriger

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep…

— Thomas Carlyle

“We suffer the threat of breathing in water; we fight the nightmares that would drown us. And just as we feel the deceptive joy…

— Lynne Hugo

“Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day,…

— Victor Davich

“For here he was, barely able to tread water, some gargantuan lizard in the water with him, and the most beautiful woman in the…

— Vernon D. Burns

“It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.”

— Jane Fancher

“With the sound of waves outside, the bed seemed like our own Guld and we were swimmers. Front to front, out bodies slicked with…

— Gail Giles

“In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.”

— Charles Martin

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

— Ovid

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped…

— Alice Oswald

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

— Robert Jordan

To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as…

— Melanie McGrath