Dumais Quotes & Sayings

Today is today, and tomorrow is tomorrow. I'm just going to enjoy it. — Troy Dumais

I still have a dream. — Troy Dumais

You can't make up for something you lost. — Troy Dumais

Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about ... I wished it would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, that was this: it was happening. Right then ... and every moment afterwards. — Sarah Dessen

There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public. — Junius Williams

It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration. — Gene Edwards

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that. — Troy Dumais

I like to try to hit all of my dives. — Troy Dumais

When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was. — Troy Dumais

I used to hurt myself by training all the time. — Troy Dumais

Whatever that day has given, you have to make it the best of the best. That's one thing I've learned over my years. On days when you can't make everything what you want, do what you do best, make it as positive as possible, and go from there. Learn from your mistakes. — Troy Dumais

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes. — Mary Doria Russell

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while. — Troy Dumais

In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Think globally, act locally. — Paul McCartney

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets. — Troy Dumais

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken. — Jean-Claude Juncker

Ultimately if the body is in tune, most likely the mind is in tune. — Troy Dumais

Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting. — Troy Dumais

As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't. — Troy Dumais

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation. — Troy Dumais

not enough to make a flea a waltzing jacket. — Zora Neale Hurston

Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more. — Troy Dumais

The point is, there will always be competing voices," I heard North say. "In your head and in the world. You can't spend your life caught between them."

I looked up at him. "You're telling me to choose."

"I know better than to tell you to do anything," North said, reaching around me to shut down his computer. "But if you don't decide, the world will choose for you. — Lauren Miller

My mom worked for a doctor who had a pool that he heated to 90 degrees, and I hated cold water. My dad showed me how to dive in that pool, and pretty soon I started doing flips. — Troy Dumais

You only get so much time to do something that you enjoy or love to do. If you can continue doing it, you might as well, because I don't want to live in regret. I don't want to be the person sitting behind a desk, wondering, 'Did I do it right, did I finish it off, did I really give it my all?' — Troy Dumais

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. — James Van Allen

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet. — Douglas Wilson

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. — Jean Piaget

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. — Isaac Watts

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair. — Scott McKenzie

I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintran for myself. I've wanted it so long, said Jo, who was a bookworm. — Louisa May Alcott

Always ask yourself the golden question: If I could master one skill today, which skill would make the biggest difference in my playing? — David Dumais

So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people. — Christian A. Dumais