A Quote by Fred MacMurray

Maybe I've managed to keep my head above water through luck. — © Fred MacMurray
Maybe I've managed to keep my head above water through luck.

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I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.
The key to success is to keep your head above the water.
When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
Just try to keep your head above water until the boys get back. It's as simple as that.
There's always another adventure if you keep your head above water and I don't have any desire to slow down because it keeps you young.
Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
It is a lot easier to stay focused and keep your head above water when you are pursuing your ultimate dreams!
Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.
Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.
From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.
Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.
Sippin' on that brown stuff Got you feeling like you found love, Or maybe it was just luck. But honestly...it's probably none of the above.
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
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