Tides Quotes
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.
Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?
O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.
Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.
Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.
I do count on a changing of tides. All too often, what could be a critics' darling today becomes tomorrow's target. I don't want to be too blasé about it.
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.
It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.
I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.
Stay in one place too long and the tide can overwhelm you. Ride the tide, surf the waves, stay on top of the changes.
It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.
There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.
Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.