The Swan Quotes
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The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water.
— Abhijit Naskar
Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.
— Barbara Hershey
"When you left he left
you took everything with you. But the absence of him is everywhere I look." - Bella Swan, New Moon — Stephenie Meyer
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
— Heinrich Heine
He framed my face now, and I met his stare in the dark of the car. "I think you're beautiful." My heart folded like an origami swan.
— Jenny B. Jones
Hell, he thought maybe they were hippos in tutus doing Swan Lake, the way everything flipped and bounced.
— K.C. Wells
Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'
— Robert Gottlieb
Let's go join the Black Swan!
— Shannon Messenger
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
— Orlando Gibbons
And as she'd watched him stagger away Swan had realized that forgiveness crippled evil, drew the poison from it like lancing a boil.
— Robert McCammon
The Duchess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan.
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.
— Karen Joy Fowler
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
strangers? Millie's swan song on the stage, the last
— Kate Atkinson
I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture. - Bella Swan
— Stephenie Meyer
There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.
— Stephenie Meyer
Weren't your friends the family you got to choose?
— Karen Swan
The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)
— Maria Grazia Swan
Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
The tail of some creature has nothing to do with it! I don't even know what a fairy is. How could I be afraid of its tail?
— Donald Swan
The world may see you as an ugly duckling, but God sees you as a magnificent swan.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!" Bag Lady, Swan Song
— Robert McCammon
The mosaicist was making the fine hairs on the nape of Mona's swan neck out of chips of gold
— Kurt Vonnegut
I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.
— Scarlet Risque
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I eased back into the throne. Damn comfortable: swan-down and silk. Kinging it is pain in the arse enough without one of those gothic chairs.
— Mark Lawrence
CG: WELCOME TO THE TROLLOCAUST. THE PAINSTAKING GENOCIDE OF YOUR FRAGILE SELF ESTEEM WILL BE MY SWAN SONG.
— Andrew Hussie
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
that the Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, and retrospective explainability. Let
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
— Epictetus
Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I will play the swan. And die in music.
— William Shakespeare
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
His face looked shrewd and wise, as if he knew many things, many of them not worth knowing.
— E.B. White
A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
— James A. Michener
She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.
— Thomm Quackenbush
Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]
— Maria Grazia Swan
Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small pink blobs adrift in a warm environment.
— Dave Franklin
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.
— Stephenie Meyer
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
— E.B. White
When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
And the Black Swan is what we leave out of simplification.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
WHAT COMES FROM THE HEART TOUCHES THE HEART.
— Lester Swan
THE MAJOR WAY TO CONQUER FEAR IS TO MAKE A DECISION.
— Lester Swan
God is the reason why even in pain, I smile. In confusion, I understand. In betrayal, I trust. And in fear, I continue to fight. -Bella Swan
— Stephenie Meyer
If there were any way for me to become human for you - no matter what the price was, I would pay it.
— Stephenie Meyer
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
— Gary Shteyngart
After many a summer dies the swan.
— Christopher Isherwood
Fall down again, Bella?'No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face. — Stephenie Meyer
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!
— William Wordsworth
YOU CANT CHANGE THE PAST,BUT YOU CAN RUIN YOUR PERFECTLY PRESENT LIFE BY WORRYING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.
— Lester Swan
Before you drown, the spinning just feels like a dance.
— Swan Huntley
She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.
— George R R Martin
The only person standing in your way is you.
— Vincent Cassel
in 1596 a man called William Wayte claimed to have been set upon by four assailants outside the Swan Theatre
— Neil MacGregor
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
— Henry Miller
Swan dive down eleven stories highHold your breath until you see the light
You can sink to the bottom of the sea
Just don't go without me — The Civil Wars
I glared at him. I may not die now ... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.
— Stephenie Meyer
If I was the pope, I'd've made Mrs. de Roo a saint. On the spot.
— David Mitchell
Obviously the original 'Tron' was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.
— Serinda Swan
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
— Stephenie Meyer
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
— Martial
Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project
— Donald Swan
The best part is coming.""What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?"
"No. That's the finale. — Stephenie Meyer
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
— Wayne Swan
I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy.
— Maria Grazia Swan
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
— James Russell Lowell
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
— Natalia Makarova
It's difficult dating as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling.
— Serinda Swan
You're his lobster. Or swan, Or penguin. The Spock to his Kirk
— Elizabeth Rudnick
What the hell is in swan saliva that burns so badly?
— John Green
