Going Against The Tide Quotes

#1. Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

Lewis Gordon

#2. ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while - all artists know this.

Greg Prato

#3. Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Diane Abbott

#4. A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Andrew Schneider

#5. Jason lifted me up, and I wrapped my legs around his waist. His forehead rested against mine. "I've never liked dancing." He started to sway with the music and the tide, turning us slowly. "But maybe I just never had the right partner.

Lisa Kessler

#6. If your lost you might need to swim against the tide

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#7. Sleep came to me like a thin tide of water. It would lap against my body but never submerge me.

Hannah Kent

#8. Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

Pope Francis

#9. The turquoise tide shimmered in shades of mermaid tails against the alabaster shore. The

Karen Marie Moning

#10. I saw thousands of pumpkins last night
come floating in on the tide,
bumping up against the rocks and
rolling up on the beaches;
it must be Halloween in the sea

Richard Brautigan

#11. Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.

Niall Quinn

#12. The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart in the centre of the earth beat but twice a day.

Annie Proulx

#13. There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

Pope Francis

#14. I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.

Tim Macartney-Snape

#16. the most
beautiful tide

is the sweep
of your heart
against mine.

Sanober Khan

#17. You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide

Donald Trump

#18. Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It came after the shipwreck, when the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant shore.

Leigh Bardugo

#19. Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#20. Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

William Shakespeare

#21. In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

J. Paul Getty

#22. From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Ella Maillart

#23. America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

Ferdinand Marcos

#24. Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

Richard Branson

#25. Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Jesse Ventura

#26. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

Jay Asher

#27. In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.

Jeanette Winterson

#28. Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.

Jim Morrison

#29. What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

Herbert Hoover

#30. Earth and air, fire and water, the stars in their courses, the high tide of destiny and the Will of divine Providence are all arrayed against the forces of oppression. -- Louis Gregory

Janet Ruhe-Schoen

#31. We can all help turn the tide against bullying ... If we stand up and speak out strongly against it!

Timothy Pina

#32. I seek you like the waves seek the shore. I cannot stay, and too, I cannot stay away from you. When I push against the drift, I choke! I gasp for air! I drown within my love for you. So I will ebb and I will flow and let the tide direct my course and see where it will go.

Kate McGahan

#33. Changing things in education involves hard work, determination and an ability to swim against the tide.

Adele Devine

#34. Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

Russell Simmons