S Quotes
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“Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.”
“Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special”
Source: Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life
“Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.”
“Surfing is attitude dancing.”
“Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life.
The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan.
The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.”
Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)
“Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.”
“Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.”
Source: The man in the brown suit
“Surfing is my religion, if I have one.”
“Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.”
“Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've ever surfed in turds and medical waste you don't want to repeat the experience.”
“Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.”
“Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It's an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.”
“Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.”
“Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.”
“Surfing is so unique and it's something that no matter what level you are, you can go and have fun. You can pick and choose the waves that you want to surf, so if it is too big and scary, you can wait until it changes and gets more to your level. Every time you go out it's always different and unique. It's almost like a place you can just de-stress.”
“Surfing is something I just crave.”
“Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.”
“Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.”
“Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.”
“Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.”
“Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.”
“Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.”
“Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.”
Source: Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life
“Surfing the web often comes at the cost of face-to-face time with friends and family.”
“Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.”
“Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god”
“Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before—just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.”
“Surga, adalah masa kanak-kanak. Sisanya, adalah janji Tuhan yang bebas untuk kau percayai ataupun tidak.”
Source: Perempuan Dalam Hujan
“Surga itu kondisi ketika hatiku dan hatimu tak berjarak lagi.”
“Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation.”
“Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.”
“Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.”
“Surgeons are so absurdly ultraspecialized that when we joke about right ear surgeons and left ear surgeons, we have to check to be sure they don't exist”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande: 1
“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”
Source: Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review
“Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.”
Source: Godplayer
“Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit-Life!”
“Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.”
“Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.”
“Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it’s better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.”
“Surgery is easy; it's recovery that's hard.”
Source: Knee Replacement Advice, Checklists, and Journal - 5 Steps for Successful Recovery Even If You Have Complications: Practical Advice from a Patient
“Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment”
“Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or better according to the designated pattern. I wanted to disrupt the standarts of beauty.”
“Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.”
Source: Letters to a Young Doctor
“Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.”
“Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.”
“Surgical Talk
As we look at the insides of humans,
We find the inside of ourselves
And each other.
What lies beneath us?
What do we believe
About the world and our place in it?
We cut down layer upon layer
And dissect the inner life.”
Source: Legacy
“Surgió un nuevo y fabuloso enemigo, germinado por una sociedad deshumanizada e instruida en el egoísmo y el materialismo desbordado: el pillaje.”
Source: Los caminantes
“Suri is my daughter, she's very, very special to me, and this project took a lot of time and because it's my first feature I wanted her to know that she's so special to me. I thought that as she gets old that will mean more to her, that she's always the most important, and I wanted to give her a special thanks because she means everything to me.”
“Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.”
Source: Shadow Puppets
“Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.”