Above Water Quotes
19 quotes by 16 authors
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to…
— Lorraine Bracco
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Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.
— John Flavel
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Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate…
— George Polya
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Just try to keep your head above water until the boys get back. It's as simple as that.
— Larry Bowa
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
— Sigmund Freud
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
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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…
— Esther Williams
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I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above…
— Sylvia Plath
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I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the…
— William Goldman
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Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under…
— Lauren Oliver
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I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as…
— Gayle Forman
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They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!
— Bud Abbott
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Keep your head above water
— Proverb
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I'm just trying to keep my head above water. -Matt King
— The Descendants
Who Wrote These Above Water Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 19 Above Water Quotes as follows: