Quotes About Swimming Upstream

#1. With God, all things are possible- including, dominating adulthood, swimming upstream for life, and living in light of eternity in a world that tells you all you can do is live for the moment.

Katie Kiesler

#2. After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

Sam Walton

#3. Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

Bradley Whitford

#4. You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

Loretta Lynn

#5. What i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

Sonia Sanchez

#6. I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

Katie Waitman

#7. If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

Francis Chan

#8. It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember (from Swimming Upstream).

Ruth Mancini

#9. When I'm writing my own stuff, it's like swimming upstream. Or ... falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.

Gary Snyder

#11. The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

Brian Christian

#12. Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

John Oates

#13. For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.

Michele Montas

#14. It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he couldn't see me, and that I was aware and fully conscious and he wasn't

Iain Banks

#15. As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.

Arianna Huffington

#16. In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible - there's truth and there's not truth. It's human nature to like to read the adulation more.

Matthew McConaughey

#17. The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

Nick Hexum

#18. I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

Axl Rose

#19. Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

Brent Spiner

#20. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Alexander Pope

#21. When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

Will McDonough

#22. But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation; and that they are much more uniform than can be easily imagined.

Jonathan Swift

#23. The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.

Steven Pinker