My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. — Laura Schlessinger
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. — Woodrow Wilson
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. — Ovid
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home. — Joanne Harris
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom. — Pythagoras
It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking. — Laura Moriarty
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? — Georges Duhamel
Always drink upstream from the herd. — Will Rogers
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. — Eric Hoffer
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide. — Garth Brooks
man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer — Otto von Bismarck
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone. — Ming-Dao Deng
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning. — Richard Bangs
Swim Quotes
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! — Alfred Adler
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. — Franz Kafka
Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim — Julius Malema
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Swimming Quotes
I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not. — Irena Sendler
I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim. — Rickson Gracie
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. — Tommy Douglas
Haters will see you walk on water and say it's because you can't swim.
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966) — Bob Dylan
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing. — Barry Sheene
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches. — Strom Thurmond
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. — Alan Watts
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
Upstream Quotes
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in. — Desmond Tutu
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. — Wendell Berry
what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream. — Sonia Sanchez
Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. — John Oates
Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream. — David Nicholls
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. — Sam Walton
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. — Loretta Lynn
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. — W. C. Fields
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency. — Sam Walton
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden
I Love Swimming Quotes
A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun. — Missy Franklin
I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again. — David Fincher
I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging. — Colbie Caillat
Don't let the waves of others drown out your ocean song. Hold your heart as though it was a seashell. And listen to it. Listen to its music. To the whispers of your ocean within. And then swim. Swim to your ocean music.
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. — Richard Harris
I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right. — Beth Orton
I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim
I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova
I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice. — Tabitha Suzuma
I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water. — Natalie Coughlin
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer. — Viggo Mortensen
As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream. — Judith Hanson Lasater
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance. — Stephen Covey
The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream. — Nick Hexum
Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh. — Dick Morris
I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow. — Ritchie Blackmore
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream. — Francis Chan
Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.' — Bradley Whitford
As an actor you always feel like you're swimming upstream. — Bradley Whitford
I think that sometimes the Democrats have to run upstream or swim upstream because we've got the Republicans making it out as if we don't care about these things, and we should be able to engage and be willing to engage in the discussion about morality and values. — Barack Obama
I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader. — Lee Strobel
In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all. — Amy Richards
The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting. — Brian Christian
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long. — Sam Walton
Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. — Jim Rohn
For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery. — Michele Montas
Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down. — Ogden Nash
Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current. — Tom Shadyac
it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall. — Rainbow Rowell
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