Top 476 Swinging For The Fences Quotes & Sayings

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Every now and then they threw one where I was swinging.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.

Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

There's no worse feeling than being in front of a guy with six-pack abs, muscles popping out of his shoulders, veins popping out of his arms, and you know he's swinging for the fences, in front of all your friends and family, and you can't breathe. You can't breathe no matter how much moves you know. You start to panic. You start to feel a drowning sensation. It's the worst feeling in the world.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

I can't imagine that I would be the person I am today if, over the last seven years, I had been married to somebody who didn't feel 100 percent comfortable with my drive, my ambition, my interest in thinking big and swinging for the fences.

Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

Some people build fences to keep people out and we also do things everyday to keep people close - when we play ball and go fishing with our kids, we are doing it to keep them close and fenced in. That's how relationships are built positively - we're using fences to tell people that we love them.

I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary. See yourself in your opponents. They will bring you to understand the Game. To accept the fact that the Game is about managed fear. That its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

We have to change my habits, so that when the worst case scenario happens, I don't start just swinging for the fences. I still stay composed, I pick technique over power and I push the pace that way.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

I was 2 years old and already swinging bats and throwing balls.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

I'm comfortable swinging the ball at the top of the key.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

There's nothing I can really do but keep going out there and swinging.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

I like the new, cool, swinging Justin Timberlake.