Nyad Swimmer Quotes

#1. The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#2. At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that ... liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing

Starhawk

#3. You have but mistook me all the while ... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

William Shakespeare

#4. I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Adele

#5. Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.

Cassandra Clare

#6. A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

H.L. Mencken

#7. I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

Nathan Fillion

#8. A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.

Michelle Gomez

#9. Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?

Perry Brass

#10. 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

#11. Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

Maisie Williams

#12. There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Jimmy Carter

#13. Every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry,

Walter Brueggemann

#14. All I know is that I'm in love with you," he said, almost angrily. "That the sight of you, the scent of you, the sound of your voice - I can't help myself, I can't stop it, I can't think of anything else. You've made me completely useless.

Lee Nichols

#15. In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Dean Koontz

#16. The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

George Packer