High Tides Quotes

#1. Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

Elsa Barker

#2. The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot. That kind of force and that kind of distance are more than enough to break hard rock. Wells will flow faster during lunar high tides.

John McPhee

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

David Hare

#4. The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Bodett

#5. Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

Thomas De Quincey

#6. My hope has always been that each record could have its own audience. Of course, it's awesome to have a cumulative audience for more than one record, but I like the idea that there could be a record that an individual might like.

Will Oldham

#7. Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#8. There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

Andrew Mellon

#9. Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#10. As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times ...

James A. Murphy

#11. In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend ... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side ... I'll be by your side.

Bob Marley

#12. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Isaiah

#13. The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

Ralph Metzner

#14. Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

Mason Cooley

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

Hafez

#16. In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side

Bob Marley

#17. The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

Alben W. Barkley

#18. If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Samuel Butler

#19. Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

#20. .'All is suffering' is a bad modernist translation. What the Buddha really said is: It's all a mixed bag. Shit is complicated. Everything's fucked up. Everything's gorgeous.

Robin Coste Lewis

#21. Ass in the chair, Soldier.

Jay Crownover

#22. Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

Woodrow Wilson