Swimmer Diana Nyad Quotes

#1. You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. I respect commas far more than I respect congressmen.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.

Melina Marchetta

#4. And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.

Jason Versey

#6. Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be ... scarier.

Nalini Singh

#7. As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Amelia Earhart

#8. 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

#9. The free animal
has its dying always behind it
and God in front of it, and its way
is the eternal way, as the spring flowing.
Never, not for a moment, do we have
pure space before us, where the flowers
endlessly open.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

William Arthur Ward