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«When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.»
Author: James Whitcomb Riley | Keywords: duck, quack, quacks, swims
«At Wabash, everybody sinks or swims together-everybody, even our salespeople. They aren't on commission. They participate in the same compensation system as everybody else.»
«Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | About: Confidence, Individuality | Keywords: stream, swims
«Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.»
Author: Vivien Leigh (Actress) | Keywords: bathing, Shaw, swims
«The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung | Keywords: guerrilla, Guerrillas, swims
«Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien»
«He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.»
«I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.»
«One who serves the Lord swims across to the other side, and all his affairs are resolved.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: resolved, swims