Tides Quotes - Page 17

• Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

  Mark Doty

  Rain, Play, Fog

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• Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

  A. E. Waite

  Secret, Depth, Flow

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• 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.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Culture, Dignity

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• "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

  Charles Dickens

  Past, People, Water

  David Copperfield ch. 30 (1850)

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• The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Dark, Men

  charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.104

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• The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".

  Daniel Burrus

  Zero, Powerful, Nice

  "Want to Save the Manufacturing Sector? It's Time to Embrace the Principles of Next Generation Manufacturing" by Daniel Burrus, bigthink.com.

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• The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

  Emily Dickinson

  Sea, Water, Being Positive

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.362, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Come hither, all ye empty things,
  Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;
  Who float upon the tide of state,
  Come hither, and behold your fate.
  Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
  How very mean a thing's a Duke;
  From all his ill-got honours flung,
  Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Mean, Fate

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.283

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• The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Moon, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.289, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Sunshine

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.140, David M Gross

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• Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
  While the world's tide is bearing me along;
  Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
  Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Maturity, Forgiving

  Emily Bronte, “Remembrance”

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• A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Military, War

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• Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, League

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Life of Ages, richly poured,
  Love of God unspent and free,
  Flowing in the Prophet's word
  And the People's liberty!
  
  Never was to chosen race
  That unstinted tide confined;
  Thine is every time and place,
  Fountain sweet of heart and mind!

  Samuel Johnson

  Sweet, Heart, Race

  Samuel Johnson (1865). “Hymns of the Spirit”, p.436

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• I have since written what no tide
  Shall ever wash away, what men
  Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
  And find Ianthe's name agen.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ocean, Men, Names

  Walter Savage Landor (1863). “Heroic idyls, with additional poems”, p.230

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• Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

  Shereen El Feki

  Country, Law, People

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• Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Memories, Important

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blood, Soul, Crowns

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• WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Weather, Shepherds

  Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "Weathers"

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• There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.

  Tana French

  Home, Dark, Boys

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• I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate. “Oh, Kitten,” he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. “You didn’t really think we were done, did you?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Done, Arms

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• For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Heart, Fate

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Love, Powerful, Tugging

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• 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 out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

  Sara Zarr

  Song, Memories, Hate

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• I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver

  Khalil Gibran

  Blow, Wind, Sea

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