Lezak Swims Quotes & Sayings

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare

You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation. — Ray Mears

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills. — Aaron Watson

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not. — Monica Crowley

The ancient sanskirt legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. the legends say that the loved one is instantly recognised because she's loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. the legends say that we know her by her wings - the wings that only we can see - and because wanting her kills every other desire of love. the same legends also carry warnings that such fated love may, sometimes, be the possession and the obsession of one, and only one, of the two souls twinned by destiny. but wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise. — Gregory David Roberts

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. — Carrie Hamilton

In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him...He was no longer prepared to wait on events. He needed to force them to manipulate them to manufacture incidents to create pretexts for action. — Donald Cameron Watt

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread? — Calvin Trillin

We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product. — Richard M. Nixon

He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places. — Collette West