“ 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. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ The fact of the matter is that we are facing a small group of bitter-enders who are basically trying turn the tide of history. ”
- Paul Bremer- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done…, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. ”
- Carrie Chapman Catt- Copy
- 331
“ Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. ”
- David Hare- Copy
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“ Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe. ”
- Charles Mackay- Copy
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“ It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats. ”
- John Hoeven- Copy
- 3.7K
“ You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. ”
- Antony Jay- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. ”
- Prem Rawal- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live. ”
- Thomas Tusser- Copy
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“ The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see The rolling mist came down and hid the land: And never home came she. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;.... The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
- 285
“ Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time; but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all. ”
- Mary Adams- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean. ”
- Ralph W. Sockman- Copy
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“ He that strives not to stem his anger's tide, does a wild horse without a bridle ride. ”
- Colley Cibber- Copy
- 3.8K
“ There are, in the affairs of men and nations, inexorable tides from which they cannot remain aloof. ”
- Louis L’Amour- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
- 212
“ It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked. ”
- Warren Buffett- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. ”
- Jeff Melvoin- Copy
- 155
“ Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side. If we could know! ”
- Julia Harris May- Copy
- 2.1K
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