Dog Paddling Quotes & Sayings

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are. — Isaac Marion

Their result was a model-generated prediction: Given this rate of transmission, given that rate of recovery, given those unrelated mortalities, then . . . an intermediate grade of virulence should come to predominate. Son of a gun, it matched what had happened. — David Quammen

There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall also know what I love here. Fear has always guided me toward what I desire. And because I desire, I fear. Often it was fear that took me by the hand and led me. Fear leads me to danger. And everything I love is risky. — Clarice Lispector

I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said.
"Don't call my boobs funny," I answered. — John Green

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it. — Carine Roitfeld

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. — Albert Einstein

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule. — Gerry Geek

Treading water, a little dog-paddling - it's a lot like writing a novel, Clark," the dump reader told his former student. "It feels like you're going a long way, because it's a lot of work, but you're basically covering old ground - you're hanging out in familiar territory. — John Irving

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. — Franz Liszt

They said what doesn't kill you made you stronger. No, it left you with holes blown through your soul. — Michael Grant

Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub. — Gail Carriger

It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them go. But I can't let go yet. — Cecilia Vinesse