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“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 and wait for the turn of the tide.”

Made Turns Waiting Darkness Wind Rivers Bounds Calm Tides Flood Sail Anchors

Book:Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

Source: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

“I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.”

Men Want Should Humor Funny Guy Turns Race Feet Car Window Radio Circles Drivers Keep Going Tides Slow Down Bugs Turn-on Passengers Race Car

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.”

Men Heart Turns Confidence Battle Thousand Giants Iron Tides Strife Conqueror Dwarfs Dwarves Stout Quails Iron Will

Book:Tupper's complete poetical works: containing

Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing

“The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.”

Men Turns Courses Judging Currents Tides

Book:The Nature of the Judicial Process

Source: The Nature of the Judicial Process

“... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.”

Mean War Turns Peace Victory Remains Circles Tides Reverse Nevertheless

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.”

Doe Stories Turns Secret Storytelling Carrie Bottles Tides Blank Storyteller Adequate Fervent

Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.”

People Life Trying Turns Born Sea Wind Casts Blow Boat Rhythm Tides Harbors

Author:Cynthia Voigt

“Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.”

Ifs Enough Turns Waiting Ocean Bird Breaths Tides

Author:M.C. Beaton

“The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.”

Art Artist Turns Culture Dignity Tides Extensions Crusades Disintegration

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."”

People Ifs Said Past Dies Turns Three Next Water Born Hours Half Tides Flood Going Out Coast Spooky

Author:Charles Dickens

“Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke; From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.”

Mean States Turns Fate Taught Pride Kings Empty Breaths Ill Honour Bubbles Tides Dirt Floats Dukes Sprung Rebuke Very Mean

Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...