Buoying Quotes & Sayings

College was a bubble that kept the rest of the world at bay. There was an abundance of free time, friends who lived either with you or right next door, and an overwhelming sense of optimism about the future, even if you had no idea as to the specifics of what that might mean. In college, everyone accepted the fact that their lives would turn out exactly as planned, buoying them from one good memory to the next in a cascade of carefree three-day weekends. — Nicholas Sparks

Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I'm not a natural athlete, I'm still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea. — Monique Roffey

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it. — Bjorn Borg

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. — Thomas Paine

Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns. — Sean Patrick

You're going to obliterate me aren't you? — Jandy Nelson

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. — Linus Torvalds

Government-imposed loan standards precipitated a banking crisis, which was solved by a government bailout and control of the banks. As a result, little by little, fewer and fewer are making more and more banking decisions. Government — David Jeremiah

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love. — C.S. Lewis

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up. — Elizabeth Wein

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard. — Jacqueline Emerson

I suddenly knew it wasn't only the wonderful luxury of being in love that had been buoying me up: deep down, in some vague, mixed up way I had been letting myself hope he didn't really care for her, that it was me he loved and that kissing me would have made him realise it. 'You're a fool and worse -' I told myself. 'You're a would-be thief. — Dodie Smith

When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is — Carl Sagan