Tidal Waves Quotes

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

Wally Lamb

Drawing, Lions, Wave

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Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Dan Brown

Sky Is The Limit, Sky's The Limit, Infringement

Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.

Austin O'Malley

Life, Running, Beach

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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

Phyllis Bottome

Heart, Dry, Sometimes

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Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

Arthur C. Clarke

Fear, Real, Believe

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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

Anais Nin

Writing, Feelings, Wave

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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Henry Ward Beecher

Liberty, Wave, Providence

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Seamus Heaney

Justice, Once In A Lifetime, Sides

"Doubletake" l. 13 (1990)

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But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever - Bella Cullen

Stephenie Meyer

Forever, Facts, Wave

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He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Jack London

Life, Stars, Perfect

Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.25, Lulu.com

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If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

Karen Traviss

Ignorance, Government, One Day

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A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part, on whether they ride that wave into the future or, standing in the way, are rendered irrelevant by the voters.

John Vasconcellos

Marijuana, Support, United States

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By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

Andy Grove

Feet, Attention, Internet

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After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Boy George

Drug, Half, World

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Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

Bethany Hamilton

Love Is, Surfer, Wave

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With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love.

Cynthia Heimel

Dog, Forever, Feelings

Cynthia Heimel (1995). “When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me”, p.37, Atlantic Monthly Press

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Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Jodi Picoult

Feet, Wave, Sigh

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.

Jim James

Color, People, Skins

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do.

Swami Vivekananda

Character, Eye, Men

Swami Vivekananda (2007). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

H. G. Wells

Beach, Heart, Men

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Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.

Deb Caletti

Simple, Love Is, Sure Love

Deb Caletti (2007). “The Nature of Jade”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.

Paul Ryan

Country, Wall, Years

"Politico" Interview, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

Rand Paul

Party, Tea, Wave

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As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Alan Moore

People, Wave, Desperate

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I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Russell Crowe

Moving, Australia, England

New York Daily News, 2000.

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