Quotes by Swans Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand. Ramakrishna swans leaving water So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated. Richard Thaler swans rare-events giving Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills. Robert M. Lindner swans tongue song This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. Robinson Jeffers swans games art Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan. Robinson Jeffers swans wings love Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed. Robinson Jeffers swans white wings I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty. Rufus Wainwright swans beauty people I think Kristen is incredibly brave. She played such a good version Bella Swan, people think Kristen Stewart is Bella Swan. She's not, you know? If you meet Kristen, she's wildly kind of giggly and vivacious and rebellious and naughty - all things that Bella Swan isn't. Rupert Sanders swans naughty thinking And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet. Russell Brand ugly-duckling swans character Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. Saint Basil deep-water swans fishing Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge swans nature death It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow. Sathya Sai Baba swans crow honor I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan. Sherri Saum swans morbid black You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. Socrates swans knowledge thinking There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan Stephenie Meyer swans law house My mother is part albino." Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer swans twilight mother I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer swans beautiful boys There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. Stephenie Meyer swans twilight would-be After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3 Stephenie Meyer swans shining years Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan. Stephenie Meyer swans smell twilight «12345678»