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“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”

Sides Sleep Blood Land Dying Hero Band Died Tides Shed Martyr

Book:Poems ...

Source: Poems ...

“Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.”

Life Is Difficult Tides Floats Detached Tidy

Author:Prem Rawat

“A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”

Want Persons Choices Three Water Swim Tides Exhausted Life Choices

Author:Andrew Schneider

“The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.”

Knows Men Doe Order Waiting Hours Behinds Fronts Beach Dry Flats Tides Flood Pressing On

Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand”

World Action Lines Feet Presses Patterns Surface Impression Landscape Sand Flats Gestures Tides Worn Reciprocal Ridges Swirls Roving

Author:Robert Macfarlane

“To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.”

People Way Needs Giving Stories Christian Turns Community Models Kingdoms Despite Materialism Tides Glorify Christian Community

Author:Randy Alcorn

“After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.”

War Tides Pearls Harbors Tidy Axes

Author:Alexander Dubcek

“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”

Way Years Humans Heart Littles Art Moving Prayer Perspective Safe Distance Warm Envy Scripture Pity Tides Expansion Human Heart Fascination Contractions Revulsion

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of their right to a livable future. It's a justice issue, because its victims are, and will be, disproportionately poor and of color, those least able to contend with or to flee, the storms, droughts, famines, and rising tides of global warming.”

Children Able Justice Poor Issues Color Victim Social Justice Storm Rising Global Warming Tides Theft Famine Drought

Author:Fred Small

“Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.”

Self Past Path Meditation Discipline Ocean Comfortable Rivers Rising Tides Self Discipline

Author:Guru Nanak

“As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.”

World Littles Truth Friendship Enemy Teacher Sea Bears Ocean Deeds Spread Doctrine Yield Tides Ashes Brooks Emblems Friends And Enemies Avon

Author:William Wordsworth

“As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.”

“I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.”

People Years Inspiration Class Fashion Unique Tides Old Lady

Author:Rila Fukushima

“In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.”

Ideas Running Earth Simple Democracy Taken Roots South Corners China Cease Eras Village Tides South Africa Tidy Simple Ideas Global Village

Author:Paul Tsongas

“For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.”

Life Accepting Sea Limits Flow Islands Abandoned Tides Serenity Here And Now Interrupted Ebb And Flow

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?”

Children School Hours Education Five Week Teaching Program Meetings Humanism Sunday Allies Tides Stem Public School Psychiatry Fractions Sunday School Humanistic

Book:Hvmanism: A New Religion

Source: Hvmanism: A New Religion

“This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.”

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition

“The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.”

Love Let Me Over You Tides Flood Risen

Author:Hafez

“What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the Bois de Belleau and the Village of Bouresches stained with their blood, and not only taken away from the Germans in the full tide of their advance against the French, but held by my boys against counter attacks day after day and night after night. I cannot write of their splendid gallantry without tears coming to my eyes.”

Writing Eye Night Boys Taken Blood Tears Hills Village Farms Tides Marine Splendid Day And Night Marine Corps Slopes My Boys Gallantry Mares Counter Attack

Author:James Harbord

“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Happiness Faces Joy Dies Grows Grief Tears Wind Laughter Blow Heavy Breasts Tides Stride Tidy

Book:Poetry

Source: Poetry

“Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.”

Hands Care Time Waiting My Own Fate Sea Wind Tides Folds Serene Rave

Book:The Writings of John Burroughs: The light of day. 12. Literary values and other papers

Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: The light of day. 12. Literary values and other papers

“Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should follow the same pattern, absorbing the entire universe in your belly with each inhalation. Know that we all have access to four treasures: the energy of the sun and moon, the breath of heaven, the breath of earth, and the ebb and flow of the tide.”

Knows Should Earth Fall Universe Energy Heaven Sound Sun Four Moon Creating Flow Breaths Wave Patterns Strikes Access Treasure Shore Tides Belly Absorbing Ebb And Flow

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.”

Three Fields Wind Huge Like You Drug Tides Shifting Playing Fields

Author:Malia Manuel

“Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors”

Way Believe Long Behinds Violence Doors Subjects Tides Domestic Violence Long Way Epidemics Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors Long Way To Go Family Violence

Author:Rosie Batty

“From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.”

Wanted Desire My Own Wind Tides My Own Life Tidy

Author:Ella Maillart

“I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.”

Years Four Four Years Tides Bucks Devastated Tidy

Author:Tommy Rettig

“Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”

Fortune Tides Haste Tidy

Author:Silius Italicus

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

Impossible Return Prove Tides Stem Tidy Undoing Palestinian Refugees

Author:Moshe Sharett

“I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.”

Thinking Past Historian Tides Tidy

Author:Ron Chernow

“Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.”

Long Kids Innocent Tides Tidy

Author:Tony Danza

“The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.”

Has Beens Able Force Immigration Canada Customs Tides Frontiers Tidy Distasteful

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.”

Wells Doe Self Desire Sides Personality Ideals Mark Rising Appetite Tides Components Sensory Tidy

Author:Samuel Alexander

“The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.”

Character Values Religious Liberty Democracy Growing Conscious Ugly Supposed To Be Shock Tides Hateful Stains Religious Freedom Anti Semitism Tidy

Author:Mike Ferguson

“If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.”

Ifs Ideas Whole Football Eating Afternoon Tides Absolutely Nothing Tidy Popcorn Watching Football

Author:Roland Joffe

“In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.”

Fighting Community Cities Crime Models Strategy Violent Tides Threatened Boston Preventing Tidy Violent Crimes Fighting Crime

Author:Thomas Menino

“Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.”

Knows Stills Goes On Tides Here I Am Tidy

Author:Angela Lansbury

“...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.”

Way Inspirational Trying Found Path Arms Tides Folds Found You

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.”

Love Moments Party Rocks Personality Lovers Curiosity Affair Lust Loved Ones Tides Accommodate

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Give wind and tide a chance to change.”

Giving Change Chance Wind Tides

Author:Richard E. Byrd

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.”

World Blood Mere Chaos Innocence Anarchy Intensity Tides Ceremony Falcon

Author:William Butler Yeats

“But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside”

Feelings Tides Numbness

Author:David Whyte

“All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.”

Felt Rose Caught Stealing Rhythm Tides Inertia

Book:Experiences in Self Healing

Source: Experiences in Self Healing

“And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.”

Ifs Able Tides Heartbeat Tempo Timepieces

Author:Dava Sobel

“I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.”

People Want Strong Tree Standing Storm Rising Tides Lighting Resilient Unafraid

Author:Manuel L. Quezon

“The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.”

Ifs Long Enough Fighting Love Is Sorrow Thousand Lucky Harder Like Me Tides Floating Relentless One You Love Lucky You Beside You

Author:Cassia Leo

“Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil.”

World Needs Should Important Christian Lasts Evil Born Prayer Doors Activity Lists Priorities Glorious Tides Stem Born Again Last Day Need Prayer

Book:Effective Prayer Life

Source: Effective Prayer Life

“Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.”

Knows Littles Able Order Happenings Wave Physics Tides Right Time Surfing Fluid Dynamics Resonance Charting

Author:Ed Seykota

“From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.”

People Writing Made Stories Home Reading Left Chance Journey Findings Unique Accounts Remains Tides Worthless Better Place Great Writers Reading And Writing

Book:A New World Order

Source: A New World Order

“To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.”

Source: The Isle of Blood

“The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.”

Source: Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart