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Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

Our attention ebbs and tides. We looked to the mainstream sports and how they stay in front of the audience.

Carey Pinkowski

Water diversion is only a short-term measure to curb salt tides, as it will be forced to stop if there is not sufficient water in the river's upper reaches.

Chen Kaizhi

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Kahlil Gibran

It'll stir the water up and move more saltwater into the lake on incoming tides. We need some new water to move into the lake. The tides have been abnormally low.

Skip James

The weather service has predicted high tides and winds for this weekend.

Neal O'haire

Building a forest with financial support from Guangdong will improve the ecological environment along the river's upper reaches and it should become an effective way in the long term to fight against salt tides.

Chen Kaizhi

It's not known how the male got out there, but it's likely that the tide was lower at that time. It happens a few times a year where people venture out, and then of course the tide comes up quite quickly and we have fairly high tides right now.

Martin Ernst

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

Kurt Tsue

We now are concerned greatly for his safety. The tides come in particularly quickly in that area.

Mark Clark

At the moment, we've got the highest tides of the month. From today, they get lower and lower, which makes it more and more difficult. It's two weeks before it comes up to this level again.

David Stirling

The length of a second was defined according to measurements of Earth's rotation taken in the 18th and 19th centuries - but Earth is slowing down, mainly because of friction caused by the tides.

Peter Whibberley

There is no honor from this leadership, no class, no integrity, ... It's very hard for all of us who are no longer there; there's a certain sense that everything was for naught. The political tides have turned. and they are taking themselves in directions that I think are self-destructive.

Melissa Gilbert

Somewhere out there, beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

William H. Rehnquist

In all likelihood, the variations in gas flux depend on a combination of barometric pressure, wind speed, Earth tides and soil moisture, but we have not yet developed a model to simplify this complex system.

John Rogie

They can do a very good job providing storm specifics, even about tides and road closures.

Scott Kiser

Everything on and under the surface is driven by the tides.

Richard Greenberg

It's not a good sign when you have repeat red tides when you never used to.

Chris Reynolds

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

David Hare

We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this year.

Dan Ayres

What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

Owen D. Young

There are, in the affairs of men and nations, inexorable tides from which they cannot remain aloof.

Louis L'Amour

It looks like we'll see a rapid rise in the tides, Wednesday night. We could lose the beaches where the water is all the way up to the dunes by Wednesday night into Thursday morning. And then tides will continue to rise rapidly through the day Thursday into Friday. It's going to be a nail biter.

John Metz

To me it comes down to experience, but you also have to have the right bait and know the tides, ... Some spots fish well only at certain tides.

Tim Brady

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.

T.e. Lawrence

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.

Pope Benedict Xvi

It must be beautiful and relaxing, but it also needs to be safe - from man-made or natural disasters. Trying to create an attractive rental from the property you buy that is sitting on an eroding cliff overlooking the ocean just won't fly, no matter how beautiful the view. Ditto if the potential for flooding from high tides or rivers is present.

Amanda Sturges

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Scott Weiland

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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.

Teilhard De Chardin

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

Alice Meynell

If we can come out against Collins and score in the game's first 10 minutes, it would have changed the tides of everything.

Cheryl Ingham

You get a 6- or 7-foot high tide, it's like a 2-foot wall backing up the flood water, preventing it from going out into the bay. Luckily, even though tides will be building next week, none will be unusually high.

Mike Pechner

Recent, frequent red tides off the west coast of Florida correlated with a 54 percent increase in emergency room admissions for respiratory illnesses, including, pneumonia, asthma attacks, and other respiratory problems.

Gregory Bossart

The marsh is a filter system, and it buffers the effect of the flood and storm tides.

Guthrie Perry