Head Above Water Quotes

#1. I used to think people were like lighthouses. That they were yhere to protect you. But they're no. People are lime whirlpools. They pull you in; they drag you under. You have to work so hard just to keep your head above water.

Lang Leav

#2. Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Charles Bradlaugh

#3. The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it.

Dave Pelzer

#4. When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

John Le Carre

#5. I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that.

Emma Stone

#6. I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

Christy Hall

#7. When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system.

Carlos Wallace

#8. It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

George Saunders

#9. I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water. -

Colleen Hoover

#10. I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

Rashid Johnson

#11. I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Katherine Anne Porter

#12. Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.

Cathie Pelletier

#13. Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'

Lisa Ann Walter

#14. Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Esther Williams

#15. Just try to keep your head above water until the boys get back. It's as simple as that.

Larry Bowa

#16. Building smart processes to streamline the workflow can make the work easier and the results more reliable, which keeps my head above water and my clients happy.

Mark Mason

#17. They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

Bud Abbott

#18. My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Kelly Clarkson

#19. Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

John Flavel

#20. Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.

David Mitchell

#21. The key to success is to keep your head above the water.

DJ Khaled

#22. Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping ... you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

Mark Twain

#23. I've always liked swimming, so long as my head's above water.

John Scalzi

#24. Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#25. I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.

James Patterson

#26. Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. If I hadn't already flown with him, I'd be scared. I'm above the water with nothing but his arms between me and an icy plunge. But his arms are wrapped tightly around me and his chest is warm. I lean my head against his muscular shoulder and close my eyes.
He rubs his cheek against my hair

Susan Ee

#28. No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

Alfred Doblin