Tides Quotes - Page 9

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 hearse.

Phineas Fletcher

Swans, Years, Dying

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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, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

John Welwood

Beautiful, Real, Fighting

John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

Roland Joffe

Football, Ideas, Popcorn

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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 Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'

Hugh Ross

California, Rushing, Atheism

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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 over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.

Elizabeth Towne

Rose, Stealing, Caught

Elizabeth Towne (1996). “Experiences in Self Healing”, p.30, Health Research Books

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...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Found You, Trying

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2590, Manonmani Publishers

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But what would that be like
feeling the tide rise
out of the numbness inside

David Whyte

Numbness, Feelings

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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

Blood, World, Anarchy

"The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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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 party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

Quentin Crisp

Love, Party, Rocks

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In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

Thomas Menino

Fighting, Boston, Cities

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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

Mike Ferguson

Religious, Character, Democracy

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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Samuel Alexander

Self, Personality, Desire

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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 patience had turned to active impatience.

Robert Updegraff

Successful, Unfinished Business, Might

Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”

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Heaven help a timid child in a trendy tide He really doesn't know That his heart's being taken for a ride Doing what the world lays down As a steadfast rule And changing when the world says to change Like a steadfast fool Heaven, heaven help me I'm one of the dominoes Chain reaction coming Blow by blow

Mark Heard

Children, Taken, Heart

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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... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

Rick Yancey

Stars, Stupid, Mean

Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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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 catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

Ed Seykota

Order, Surfing, Dynamics

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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

Beach, Sunset, Fire

ALEXANDER SMITH (1856). “POEMS”, p.61

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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 worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.

Caryl Phillips

Reading, Home, Writing

Caryl Phillips (2010). “A New World Order”, p.192, Random House

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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 needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil.

Chuck Smith

Christian, Prayer, Doors

Chuck Smith (1980). “Effective Prayer Life”

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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 storm, confident of its strength.

Manuel L. Quezon

Strong, People, Tree

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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 Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

Plato

Queens, Sculpture, Made

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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. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.

Cassia Leo

Fighting, Love Is, Long

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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 ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

William Shakespeare

Ocean, Rocks, Sea

William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

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As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.

John F. Kennedy

Together, Capes, Rising

"Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 25, 1963.

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As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Edward Norton

Men, Waiting, Honeymooners

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