#tides

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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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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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

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

— David Hare

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

— Peter Benchley

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

— Angela Lansbury

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I have a temper on me that could hold back tides. ↗

— Shirley Manson

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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ↗

— Alice Meynell

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My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.' ↗

— Jane Pauley

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