Quotes and Sayings About Swings
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The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!
-- Adrian Rogers -
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.
-- Alan Shepard -
I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
-- Alan Shepard -
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
-- Albert Murray -
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
-- Albert Pujols -
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.
-- Alice Sebold -
I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
-- Alicia Witt -
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.
-- Alistair Cooke -
The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
-- Amy Poehler -
Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.
-- Angela Knight -
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
-- Antonio Carlos Jobim -
Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
-- Artie Shaw -
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.
-- Artie Shaw -
Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'
-- Artie Shaw -
I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.
-- Austen Chamberlain -
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
-- Babe Ruth -
You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
-- Barry Lyga -
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
-- Ben Hogan -
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
-- Ben Hogan -
I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
-- Ben Hogan -
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
-- Benjamin Graham
