All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting,… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Limpets need high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in, we discovered that… — Asa Baber Copy Share Image
How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined… — Hsu Yun Copy Share Image
I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides; Each part may call… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that,… — George Grey Copy Share Image
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not… — Owen D. Young Copy Share Image
Soros and the Tides Foundation have been trying to indoctrinate our kids. Do you remember that stupid - what was the name… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go… — Sandy Gingras Copy Share Image
Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time ,… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has shown no indication whatsoever of stemming the tide of Islamic immigration, or stopping our mollycoddling, and pandering to Islam.… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image