Tides Quotes - Page 5

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Pity swells the tide of love.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

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.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

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.

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

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.

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

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.

All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.

Just keep plugging ahead with your idea because the tide turns quickly.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.