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Quotes About Swim

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.
~ Dorothy Nevill
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
MEPHISTO. I am the spirit that says no, no, Always! And how right I am! For surely It's right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me's the element in which I swim.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
Mother, may I go out to swim?Yes, my darling daughter:Hang your clothes on a hickory limbAnd don't go near the water.
~ Anonymous
You see what I mean?" Jerry said. Tom had his back to the buildings. He was looking at the sea. "Anyone fancy a swim?" he asked. "Yeah." Jerry nodded slowly. "You bring any trunks?" "No." "It doesn't matter. We can swim in our underpants." "I'm not wearing underpants." Jerry glanced at his brother. "Charming!
~ Anthony Horowitz
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
~ Diana Nyad
What's your definition of sanity, Skipper?' 'The ability to swim,' said Sparrow. Ramsey felt a cold shock, as though he had been immersed suddenly in freezing water. He had to force himself to continue breathing normally. As though from a great distance, he heard Sparrow's voice: 'That means the sane person has to understand currents, has to know what's required in different waters.' Ramsey
~ Frank Herbert
With my ol' man, I got no respect. He told me to start at the bottom. He was teaching me how to swim.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
É preciso ter a coragem e a autoridade de um Tolstói para nadar contra a corrente, desafiar as proibições e o clima geral da opinião pública e fazer o que manda sua consciência do dever".
~ Rosamund Bartlett
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.
~ Gene Perret
sons perdidos à procura de perdidas cores. corto o ar e nado através de quartos sem paredes
~ Anais Nin
I looked at the sweatshirt again. 'You swim' is a philosophy? He shrugged. Better than 'you sink', right?
~ Sarah Dessen
Should I pack a bathing suit?
~ Sarah Mlynowski
The Basics: The canals of Venice are a wonder to behold. There are no cars in Venice. There are no roads. Want to get somewhere? Walk, take a boat, or swim. Just kidding. Don't swim. The water's disgusting.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?" Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror
~ John Ashbery
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
~ John Cleese
The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?
~ John Ashbery
What?" He was frowning now. "No bathing suit? Are you sure you're not a nun?" "Some nuns swim.
~ April Lindner
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
~ Rupert Brooke
It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.
~ Sarah Chalke
Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.
~ Jacques Barzun
But who can quantify the algebra of space, or weigh those worlds that swim each in its place? Who can outdo the dark? And what computer knows how beauty comes to birth - shell star and rose? -Technicians by Jean Kenward
~ John Foster
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
~ Arthur Rimbaud