Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Sinek

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

Simon Hoggart

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

Thomas Woods

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

Tim Rice

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

Theophilus London

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Shimon Peres

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

Peter Carey

Swimming always cleans your soul

Henry A. Kissinger

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

Henry George

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

John Shelby Spong

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

John Oates

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

James Joyce

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

Marc Levy

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

Natalie Coughlin

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy,

Natalie Coughlin

Without goals, training has no direction.

Natalie Coughlin

I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

Suzy Kassem

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

Tony Parsons

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

Nate Parker

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

Ovid

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

Ovid

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

Patti Stanger

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

Mary Oliver

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Mary Daly

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Joan Didion

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Eric Shanteau

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Heidi Klum

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

Karl Pilkington

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

Joseph Murray

I've never regretted a swim

Karen Russell

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

Karen Russell

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Leisel Jones

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.