Quotes about swimming
swimming land circles
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature Friedrich Nietzsche
swimming class firsts
The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
swimming fighting order
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. Franz Kafka
swimming team
The team is swimming really well right now.
swimming
The swimmers are swimming out of their socks. Sharron Davies
swimming took willing
Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything. Aaron Peirsol
swimming want fishes
I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me. Janet Fitch
swimming done movement
No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements. Esther Williams
swimming would-be made
I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
swimming college community
I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool Mindy Kaling
swimming looks lines
There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course. Julia Glass
swimming air water
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
swimming training pushing
I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself. Ian Thorpe
swimming remember enjoy
Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.
swimming race body
I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.
swimming water lanes
There is water in every lane, so it is OK.
swimming thinking two
When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?" Hilary Swank
swimming rivers hardship
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... Jack Kerouac
swimming unhappy one-day
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. Ingrid Bergman
swimming feet bricks
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly. Jack Dee
swimming
It's a fun, made-for-TV event. We need to get more swimming on TV. Neil Walker
swimming thinking security-guards
While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will. Mao Zedong
swimming water hook
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. Ovid
swimming swim like-you
It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. Mary Daly
swimming pool swimming-pool
I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama. Joe Biden
swimming wind conscious
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. Lionel Trilling
swimming awards certificates
I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything. Karl Pilkington
swimming soul your-soul
Swimming always cleans your soul Peter Carey
swimming talking america
Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning. Hari Kondabolu
swimming dancing car
Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle. Karen Armstrong
swimming limits wells
I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits. Leisel Jones
swimming race expectations
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. Laure Manaudou
swimming winning funny-swimming
Swimming isn't everything, winning is. Mark Spitz