Swim Against The Stream Quotes & Sayings

Where do you want to go?"
"Wherever you are — Colleen Hoover

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him. — Matthew Henry

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do. — David Plotz

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim. — Shimon Peres

A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it." What — Arthur Conan Doyle

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. — Ovid

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer. — Mark Twain

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news. — Leonard Lance

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it ... — Italo Calvino

Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology. — Tess Gerritsen

The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command. — Stephen Batchelor

Each loss had been devastating in its own ways and had changed her life. — Rachel Gibson

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus. — Boy George

For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season. — Liya Kebede

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it. — Ernest Hemingway,

The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts. — Philip K. Dick

The day I die, it won't be because gravity knocked me on my back so much as it will be that I could no longer stand up to life. — Jorge David Awe

Stormin'," he said, like he was glad to note the world outside continuing on any recognizable course at all, however drastic. — William Gibson

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too. — Arsene Wenger