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  • Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.129, Harvard University Press
  • You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

    Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.43, Vintage
  • Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  • 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.

  • I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.

    Jesus   Moving   Swimming  
    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

  • 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."

    Swimming   People   Looks  
    "Bradley Whitford on Happyish, The West Wing, and his high heels on Transparent". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. June 16, 2015.
  • 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.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

    Giving Up   Fall   Eye  
  • 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, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.67, David C Cook
  • As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.

  • 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.

    "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.
  • what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

    Kissing   Swimming   Mind  
    Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.31, Beacon Press
  • Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh.

  • I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

  • If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

  • it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

    Fall   Swimming   Trying  
    Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.532, St. Martin's Griffin
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