Quotation Explorer - 'Swim'

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. - Ann Landers
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. - Jeffrey McDaniel
We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand! - Rossana Condoleo
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. - Benjamin Franklin
The waves are rough in a sea of adversity. Learning to swim in that setting provides you with one heck of an opportunity. - -Shandel Slaten
There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away. - Matshona Dhliwayo
[...] drink of their seas, illuminate yourself with their lights, swim in the ocean of Ihya so that you become one of the living (Ahya) [...]. - Shaykh 'Abdallah ibn Ahmad Ba-Sawdan
It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin
A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.
The beauty of blue water touches my heart and lovingly invites me to swim with her. - Debasish Mridha
All women live in sexual objectification the way fish swim in water. - Nussbaum, Martha
PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette. - Ambrose Bierce
Diversity cannot swim in a world flooding with clones. - Hiba Fatima Ahmad
He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise. - J. Loren Norris
Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments. - Stella Payton
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. - Cathy Hopkins
Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he is able burrow beneath the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. - Tommy Douglas
The best way to live a stress-free life is to learn how to swim in the ocean of uncertainty. - Debasish Mridha
When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free. - Jay Woodman
Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim. - Michael J. Sullivan
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! - Johnathan Winters
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
To learn how to swim, observe fish.To learn how to hunt, observe lions.To learn how to work, observe bees.To learn how to live, observe sages. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. - Vicki Harrison
Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes. - Noam Chomsky
Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself. - Kamand Kojouri
In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. - David Smith
To be a fantastic writer, live in your dreams and imaginations where you can dance like a peacock, swim like a shark, and fly like a butterfly. Live where reality has no power to change you. - Debasish Mridha
Swim in the stream of beauty of love to reach the shores of life. - Debasish Mridha
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. - Alan Rickman
One's character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life." He was quiet for a minute then dropped the curtain and said, "I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back. - Wendelin Van Draanen
Fish cannot swim out of water. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim. - Saleem Sharma
I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself. - Srinidhi.R
You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub. - Suzanne Collins
Your task is not to find the love, but to swim and dive in the love. - Debasish Mridha
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! - Jonathan Winters
Tiered body, mined, with soul. When ones must swim through all the fake while it is what it is not what one thinks it can be worded it in to and or glamour shot it to be. - Shane Edward Thompson
As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore - Jade Kosche
It’s adult swim time and I’m diving in here at the shallow end. - Suzanne Finnamore
But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface. - Katie Kacvinsky
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. - Frida Kahlo
Be an ocean of peace; let everyone swim in it with joy. - Debasish Mridha
Cast yourself upon the waters. Trust in your ability to swim. - Marty Rubin
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. - Alan W. Watts
How lonely it is!To be drowning,in a placewhere everyone can swim. - B. Damani
Your ocean of joy in not out there. Find it inside of you and swim there forever. - Debasish Mridha
But one kiss levitates above all the others. Theintersection of function and desire. The I do kiss.The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss.Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. - Jeffrey McDaniel
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. - Arthur Stringer
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim. - Jenim Dibie
When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. - William Faulkner
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is a deep, still body of water in which we all swim. Every move that we make creates a ripple that echoes across reality and the deeper that we swim, the more force those waves carry and the farther they may span. - Cristen Rodgers
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The words you speak into your life are the fountain you swim it. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge lets you swim and wisdom lets you fly. - Debasish Mridha
If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. - Linda Ellerbee
Most men will not swim before they are able to. - Hermann Hesse
There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim. - Steve Maraboli
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - E. W. Dijkstra
Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing.Art is for expressing your visionary being.Words are tools for exploring & celebrating.Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.Waste not one jot of what you are given!Use everything you've got to maximise living. - Jay Woodman
Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in. - Jay Woodman
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. - Abraham H. Maslow
For a day, just for a dayWe should swim in the love bayWe should celebrate peace dayFor a whole day, just for a day. We should think peace all the dayWe should walk peaceful wayFor a day, just for a peaceful day. - Debasish Mridha
They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse. - Madeleine L'Engle
To swim against waves is always an impossible task, but if you manage to do you will reach the shore where nobody even thought of. - Dr. Karan M Pai - Dr Karan M Pai
Our story is the raft we ride in our ocean of life. We cling to it even while we might lament our story because it feels safer to be on the raft than swimming in the currents of possibilities. When you are ready for change, jump off the raft and swim with a different story. - Jeanne McElvaney
Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment. - Uzoma Nnadi
Ah! Summer is here. Celebrate the lights, dance with the blooming flowers, swim with the heart touching waves, sing under the dreamy starlight, dance with the winds, fall in love with the blue sky and the simple joys of life. - Debasish Mridha
If tonight is my last, I would run towards the sea, wildly swim the tides, the jump up the hills, flounder the cliffs and take all big strides, for I am a wanderer, awed by nature's charm who would love to breathe his last in its embracing arms. - Arvind Parashar
It is in deep waters that God teaches us to swim. - Matshona Dhliwayo
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