Tides Quotes
499 quotes by 399 authors
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either…
— Quentin Crisp
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Give wind and tide a chance to change.
— Richard E. Byrd
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
— William Butler Yeats
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All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing…
— Elizabeth Towne
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And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it,…
— Dava Sobel
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I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the…
— Manuel L. Quezon
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The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown.…
— Cassia Leo
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Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately…
— Chuck Smith
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Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to…
— Ed Seykota
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From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my…
— Caryl Phillips
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...…
— Rick Yancey
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The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative,…
— John Welwood
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If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
— E. Jean Carroll
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There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness
— Pope Francis
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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…
— J. Paul Getty
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The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours…
— Lord Dunsany
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At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents,…
— Sandy Gingras
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A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for…
— Trevor Hall
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More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name…
— Walt Whitman
Who Wrote These Tides Quotes
399 authors contributed a total of 499 Tides Quotes, led by these top contributors: