Flood Tide Quotes

#1. To live a very long time ... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide ... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.

James Dickey

#2. s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers

David McCullough

#3. When a just cause reaches its flood-tide ... whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#4. At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

Khalil Gibran

#5. So all were gone at last, one by one, each swept out into the mighty flood tide of the city's life, there to prove, to test, to find, to lose himself, as each man must--alone.

Thomas Wolfe

#6. Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Fredrik Bajer

#7. There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now ...

William Shakespeare

#8. LUKE: There is a tide in the affairs of Jedi.
Which taken at a flood, leads to the Force.

Ian Doescher

#9. A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

#10. Here, on the farther shore of the sunset, with the flushed tide at his feet, and the large star flashing with strange laughter, did he himself naked walk with lifted arms into the quiet flood of life.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.

Pat Conroy

#12. Love between a man and woman is war.

August Strindberg

#13. There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

William Shakespeare

#14. The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.

Joseph Conrad

#15. At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*

Thom Yorke

#16. You don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

Wayne W. Dyer

#17. PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

George Maciunas

#18. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Albert Einstein

#19. We are only human. Don't be mad at yourself. Forgive yourself, forget the past and start over.

Jose N. Harris

#20. So tell me honey," he said just above a whisper, "what's got your beautiful eyes so sad?

Rachel Gibson

#21. I do have musical background; I sing.

Trai Byers

#22. Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite variety.

Vera Brittain

#23. The tide of my love
Has risen so high let me flood
over
You.

Hafez

#24. Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

Neal Shusterman

#25. You will be excellently executed.

Bret Hart

#26. It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay."
"But what about everybody else?"
He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

Scott Westerfeld

#28. The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Croly

#29. Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

Michael Jackson

#30. Any story is an ocean whose tide begins in a place I can't know, and my life is but a moment in that flood, my part in it only a mote in the flow.

Ned Hayes

#31. I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

James Finley