Currents Quote by Ovid “He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Currents Foolish Might Sideways Simplicity Streams Swim Swimmer
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“He wasn't the most graceful swimmer in the world, or the fastest, but he had a lot of anger to burn off and he… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“While he swims with the stream in the circular flow which is familiar to him, he swim against the stream if he wishes to… — J.A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“A good swimmer is one who knows how to swim through the river of life without drowning.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer. — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
“The crummy part of swimming is that while you’re doing it you can’t really see much: the bottom of the pool, certainly, a smudged and fleeting bit of the outside world as you turn your head to breathe. But you can’t pick things out – a man’s face, for example, watching from the sidelines when, for the first time in… — David Sedaris Copy Share
“People assume when you're swimming in a river you are supposed to know which way you are going, and I guess some of the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home. — Ovid Copy Share
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again,… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not… — Thom Andersen Copy Share Image
I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
