Quotes About Swimming Against The Tide

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

Niall Quinn

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

Pope Francis

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

Russell Simmons

#4. I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful ...

John Geddes

#5. You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

Kit Williamson

#6. The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

E. O. Wilson

#7. To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.

J. Budziszewski

#8. I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.

Dilip Shanghvi

#9. Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.

Diane Glancy

#10. Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

Jenna Blum

#12. Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

Stanley Hauerwas

#13. You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.

Sharon Salzberg

#14. If you want to go east, don't go west.

Ramakrishna