Against The Stream Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

Stephen Batchelor

#3. For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide
laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course
it was striving against the stream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#4. As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

Pythagoras

#5. If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

Salman Rushdie

#6. I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

Brian De Palma

#7. The man swimming against the stream knows the strenth of it.

Woodrow Wilson

#8. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. Genius,thou gift of heaven; without whose aid in vain we struggle against the stream of nature.

Henry Fielding

#10. I confess my belief in the common man ... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it ... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Woodrow Wilson

#11. When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you'll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You'll be going against the stream. You'll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.

John De Ruiter

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

Ovid

#13. Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Owen Feltham

#14. For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, "This is I." When man can name and define himself, he feels that he has an identity. Thus he begins to feel, like the word, separate and static, as over against the real, fluid world of nature.

Alan W. Watts

#15. I hope later she will see and feel a thing about these prairies I have given up talking to others about; a thing that exists here because everything else does not and can be noticed because other things are absent.

Robert M. Pirsig

#16. Just rolled out of bed."
"I can see that." His eyes swept over me. "You should roll around in your bed more often.

Veronica Blade

#17. Spirituality means, among other things, taking ourselves seriously. It means going against the cultural stream in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status of producers and performers, constantly depersonalized behind the labels of our degrees or our salaries.

Eugene H. Peterson

#18. Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Thales

#19. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

Noah Levine

#20. It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

Henry Fielding

#21. Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Joanna Russ

#22. Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Julie Klausner

#23. That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

Michael Morpurgo

#24. And when he became conscious of a human figure dark against the silver stream, sitting on a large boulder and looking rather like a large bird, it was perhaps with some of the premonitions proper to a man who meets the strangest friendship of his life.

G.K. Chesterton

#25. Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#26. It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

George Orwell

#27. 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

#28. The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

Richard Branson

#29. Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.

Tucker Carlson

#30. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Ayn Rand

#31. A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

G.K. Chesterton

#32. Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

Richard Branson

#33. But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

Marie De France

#34. A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing goes against it," said G. K. Chesterton. That

Rod Dreher

#35. I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

Robert Irvine

#36. Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.

Frances Mayes

#37. Adoration outside Holy Mass prolongs and intensifies what has taken place in the liturgical celebration and makes a true and profound reception of Christ possible. I ... warmly recommend, to Pastors and to all the faithful, the practice of Eucharistic adoration

Pope Benedict XVI

#38. We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.'
'We burned York two winters ago,' Drogo pointed out.

Robert Lyndon

#39. A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it." What

Arthur Conan Doyle

#40. If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Oliver Heaviside

#41. To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

Edward Young