Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Muir

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

Herman Melville

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

Henry David Thoreau

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

Gregory Benford

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

Fred Allen

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.

George W. Bush

I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?

Gene Tierney

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Frank Waters

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

Fay Weldon

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

George Santayana

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Jeff Lindsay

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

Jewel

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides

If we can come out against Collins and score in the game's first 10 minutes, it would have changed the tides of everything.

Nicholas Sparks

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Margaret Halsey

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Prem Rawat

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Nelson A. Miles

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

Seamus Heaney

The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

Seth Grahame-Smith

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

Mary Wollstonecraft

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

Pat Conroy

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Pat Conroy

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Pat Conroy

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

Pat Conroy

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

Pat Conroy

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

Pat Conroy

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

Louis Kronenberger

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Emily Dickinson

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!