Quotes Tagged "tide"

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

The tide can turn any time.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

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

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

I was rowing the boat alone against a tide, running against an incumbent in 2013.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.