Ebbing Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened…
— Mary Heaton Vorse
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An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it…
— Diana Athill
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata…
— Georges Cuvier
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A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may…
— Ayn Rand
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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not…
— Paul Hawken
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Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different…
— Brian Reynolds Myers
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I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite…
— Thomas Tusser
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In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates…
— Clarence John Laughlin
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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…
— Mark Twain
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Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can…
— Rumi
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s…
— Aidan Chambers
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Sharley felt his strength ebbing away, and his weak leg throbbed painfully, but then a tingling sensation thrilled through his frame and the fighting blood…
— Stuart Hill
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I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky...
— Billy Collins
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We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't…
— Jonathan Evison
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And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken…
— Lauren Oliver
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Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than…
— John Ford
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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning…
— Sean O'Casey
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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or…
— Douglas Fairbank
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Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can…
— Vicki Harrison
Who Wrote These Ebbing Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Ebbing Quotes as follows: