Going Against The Stream Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Ovid

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Rod Dreher

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Henry Fielding

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

Woodrow Wilson

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Owen Feltham

#14. 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

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

Pythagoras

#16. 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

#17. 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