Nyad Swimmer Quotes & Sayings

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. — Thomas Traherne

Being an alpha personality doesn't mean being a dickhead. — Suzanne Steele

You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.' — Tori Amos

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else. — Diana Nyad

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' — Mary J. Blige

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy. — Toba Beta

There is no alternative to class struggle. — Vyacheslav Molotov

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. — John Milton

I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her - Page 165 — Maggie Stiefvater

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind. — Ezra Pound

Another assumption is labelled 'regression', and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind. — Sigmund Freud