#tide

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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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. ↗

— Robert Collier

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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. ↗

— John Dyer

#amazing #amazing thing #arrival #departure #harbour

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides. ↗

— Gene Tierney

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I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel. ↗

— Kim Weston

#could #found #i #never #nudes

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. ↗

— George Grey

#although #beautiful #breath #communicated #grand

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. ↗

— David Hare

#deep #high #minds #ones #prosperity

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

— Lance Armstrong

#going #huge #obesity #problem #somehow

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#them #tide #today #turned

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides. ↗

— Peter Benchley

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