The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.
Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.
Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there?
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
The tides of change have great purpose in our lives.
I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.
As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.
The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea.
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.
A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.
She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.
Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.
You don’t need to be the tide to rise and fall, you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore; just be a little sand-grain and feel them all
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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.
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.
I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
