Swim Quotes - page 3

You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight. (Martin Buber)
I swam my brains out. View quote
Mark Spitz
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four. View quote
Mark Spitz
I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team. View quote
Mark Spitz
I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles. View quote
Matt Cameron
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet. View quote
Norton Juster
I caught Bast's arm when she was a few steps from the bank. "Stay away from the water.” She frowned. "Carter, I'm a cat. I'm not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank. View quote
Rick Riordan
Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies. View quote
Cecil Castellucci
...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 swim against that current. View quote
Ted Dekker
You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents. View quote
Philip Kapleau
In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions. (Daniel H. Pink)
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. View quote
Deb Caletti
Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet. View quote
David Eddings
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 the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone. View quote
Alex Garland
I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else. View quote
Enrique Vila-Matas
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. View quote
Alan Rickman
I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training. View quote
Lee Byung-hun
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second. View quote
Adam Gopnik
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim. View quote
Billie Jean King
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. (Meg Rosoff)
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime. View quote
Esther Williams
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers. View quote
Esther Williams
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. View quote
Amanda Beard
I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.' View quote
Angela Kinsey