Tides Quotations | Page 2

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

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.

The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

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.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

The tide tarrieth no man.

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Stay in one place too long and the tide can overwhelm you. Ride the tide, surf the waves, stay on top of the changes.

He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

The tides are in our veins.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.

Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble ...

In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side

In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.

Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

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.

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,