Quotes About Swimming Against The Stream

#1. 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

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

Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson

#4. 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

#5. Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Meera

#6. The ISI may well be Pakistan's answer to the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire: it

Shashi Tharoor

#7. There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

Karel Capek

#8. Love me...I am not evil.

Christopher Pike

#9. We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.

Calvin Coolidge

#10. Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Dorothea Dix

#12. A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them ...

Jane Porter

#13. Los Angeles had its faults, metaphorical and geophysical, but it was not a malicious place. People were nice here. Hollywood was the grade school teacher who started you off with an "A" until you failed. New York was the one who gave you an "F" until you proved you deserved better.

Sloane Crosley

#14. Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

Jose Saramago

#15. My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Anton Du Beke