A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
Thomas B. Macaulay

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
Alexander Dubcek

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
Lynn Abbey

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
Johnny Cash

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

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
Robert Southwell

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
Tony Danza

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
Amy Poehler

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.
Kim Weston

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

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

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.
Roland Joffe

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.
Ruth Park

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Bob Brown

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.
Thomas Menino

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.
Paul Tsongas

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.
Erich von Stroheim

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
John Hoeven

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.
Karl Shapiro

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