Tides Quotes

499 Tides quotes by 399 unique authors

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's. — Bob Burg
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey… — Hugh Ross
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's… — Robert Updegraff
For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting… — William Shakespeare
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… — Plato
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
The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. — Alexander Smith
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
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And… — Alexander Pope
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind… — Joseph Conrad
Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And… — Walt Whitman
I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should… — Mitch Hedberg
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is… — James Dickey
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… — Freya Stark
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they… — Earl Nightingale
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry… — Phineas Fletcher
When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,… — Aaron Hill
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.… — Richard M. Nixon
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist… — Eric Maisel
I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE… — Arthur Gordon Webster
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… — Rachel Carson
Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides. — Emily Dickinson
I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi ... She looks like the… — David Letterman
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks… — John Muir

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