Tides Quotes - Page 4

• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

  William Rotsler

  Gratitude, Nature, Cheer

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• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

  Jerry Fleishman

  Strength, Encouraging, Appreciation

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• I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

  Shirley Manson

  Temper, Tidy

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

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Capable

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.861, Open Road Media

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• Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

  Maya Angelou

  Stars, Wall, Ocean

  "Learning From Maya" by Sue Shanahan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, May, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

  Tom Hanks

  Breathing, Sun, Tomorrow

  "Fictional character: Chuck Noland". "Cast Away", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 12, 2017

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• A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

  Jonah Goldberg

  People, Poverty, Rising

  "Clinton heeds my Harlem advice" by Jonah Goldberg, www.jewishworldreview.com. February 15, 2001.

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• Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

  Robert Southwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.60

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• Pity swells the tide of love.

  Edward Young

  Love, Pity

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts”, p.261

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• When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Self, Agony

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.312, Open Road Media

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

  Pat Conroy

  Enough, Goodness

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.396, Open Road Media

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• We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

  Pat Conroy

  Thinking, Inability, Pay

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Grief, Rivers

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
  The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
  And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
  Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Clouds, Air

  George Gordon Byron, “Darkness”

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• The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Political, Roles, Unions

  "Selected Speeches and Writings". Book edited by Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, 1980.

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• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Autumn, Moon

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

  Pat Conroy

  Geography, Port, Wounds

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Men, Waiting

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.542, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.

  Pope Pius X

  Eye, Men, Land

  "A Treasury of Saints : 100 Saints : Their Lives and Times". Book by Malcolm Day, 2002.

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• I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.

  James Arthur

  Beach, People, Car

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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