Tides Quotations

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

You can never turn your back on the ocean.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

It's so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren't able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won't.

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the moor.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there would still be (somewhat lower) tides raised by the Sun. For creatures dependent on the oceans' ebb and flow, life could go on.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

When the tides come in, all boats rise. Thousands make $1 million or more, and then there are lots of people who get $10,000. Everyone gets something, but it is by no means equitable.

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

Starting in April, the lowest tides are in the morning, so that's when we schedule the digs. These morning digs tend to be very popular, partly because we often get good weather.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

I think we really got frustrated in the first half. They were definitely on fire. We were able to keep our composure and knew our shots would eventually fall. Fortunately, the tides turned.

We now are concerned greatly for his safety. The tides come in particularly quickly in that area.

Pity swells the tide of love.

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats,

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside

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.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

And the risks that we have feared all day are still on the table: the potential power outages, the coastal flooding from the astronomically high tides over the next two days. These haven't gone away.

The tides haven't completely turned, but we're definitely even now. We're not nervous now, and we've proven we can beat them. We know we can beat them, and we know we can play with them.

These struggling tides of life that seemIn wayward, aimless course to tend,Are eddies of the mighty streamThat rolls to its appointed end.

We weathered this storm with a reasonable outcome, but we have more tides coming at the end of the month, so we need to continue to restore things. This is a strong reminder to keep the pressure on our decision makers to continue to fund the local reclamation districts. Basically, when you build a highway, you don't walk away from that highway and let the thing crumble to pieces, you maintain it at a very high level.

You get a 6- or 7-foot high tide, it's like a 2-foot wall backing up the flood water, preventing it from going out into the bay. Luckily, even though tides will be building next week, none will be unusually high.

We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this year.

There is no honor from this leadership, no class, no integrity, ... It's very hard for all of us who are no longer there; there's a certain sense that everything was for naught. The political tides have turned. and they are taking themselves in directions that I think are self-destructive.

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

The weather service has predicted high tides and winds for this weekend.

You might have less competitive intensity than you think. It will be competitive, but not to the detriment of players involved. There's room to grow for the entire business, and rising tides will lift all boats.

You probably want to avoid the water. When you've got those types of winds and tides and swells, I'd give caution a lot of thought.

In all likelihood, the variations in gas flux depend on a combination of barometric pressure, wind speed, Earth tides and soil moisture, but we have not yet developed a model to simplify this complex system.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.

If we can come out against Collins and score in the game's first 10 minutes, it would have changed the tides of everything.

They can do a very good job providing storm specifics, even about tides and road closures.

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides

It'll stir the water up and move more saltwater into the lake on incoming tides. We need some new water to move into the lake. The tides have been abnormally low.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

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?

Somewhere out there, beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

It's not known how the male got out there, but it's likely that the tide was lower at that time. It happens a few times a year where people venture out, and then of course the tide comes up quite quickly and we have fairly high tides right now.

It must be beautiful and relaxing, but it also needs to be safe -- from man-made or natural disasters. Trying to create an attractive rental from the property you buy that is sitting on an eroding cliff overlooking the ocean just won't fly, no matter how beautiful the view. Ditto if the potential for flooding from high tides or rivers is present.

It's not a good sign when you have repeat red tides when you never used to.

It looks like we'll see a rapid rise in the tides, Wednesday night. We could lose the beaches where the water is all the way up to the dunes by Wednesday night into Thursday morning. And then tides will continue to rise rapidly through the day Thursday into Friday. It's going to be a nail biter.

It's going to help her in the battle for the Republican endorsement because of the tides of social conservatives and the Republican Party sway under social conservatives.

I am watching your chest rise and falllike the tides of my life,and the rest of it alland your bones have been my bedframeand your flesh has been my pillowI am waiting for sleepto offer up the deepwith both hands

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.