Distance Swimmer Quotes & Sayings

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer. — Jennifer Lane

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to. — Rita Ora

Innovative companies have started to realize there are not enough 'green consumers' willing to pay more for something just because it's green. — Lynn Jurich

Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime. — Larry Burkett

Today, take a dive in a beautiful, calm, tranquil lake of peace. — Debasish Mridha

The trouble is that I am crazy and the room, ah, my own room drinks me. — Anne Sexton

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment. — George Carlin

She taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over which I had no control. — James R. Doty

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening. — Gavin MacLeod

The Swimmer's Advantage:
1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get them there.
2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head the above water.
3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead.
4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world. — Mackenzie Davis

Trouble is God leading you to your destiny. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. — John Langdon-Davies

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years. — Scott Speedman

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. — Emile M. Cioran

Don't wait for me anymore.
I hope for love for you.
I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more than my own happiness.
And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all. — Ally Condie

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense. — Sarah Palin

let us start by picturing the Japan archipelago lying in the sea by the Chinese mainland. If its proximity allowed it to become part of the Sinosphere and acquire a written culture, its distance benefited the development of indigenous writing. The Dover Strait, separating England and France, is only 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide. A fine swimmer can swim across it. In contrast, the shortest distance between Japan and the Korean Peninsula is five or six times greater, and between Japan and the Chinese mainland, twenty-five times greater. The current, moreover, is deadly. . . . Japan's distance from China gave it political and cultural freedom and made possible the flowering of its own writing. — Minae Mizumura