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Tide Quotes

What the tide reveals, and what it carries away.

This tide quotes collection uses rising and falling water as a metaphor for change, from what a receding shoreline reveals to broader shifts across entire industries. See our Change quotes for related ideas.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett

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

Quotes by Tommy Rettig

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

Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Quotes by Silius Italicus

Change Quotes

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the...

Quotes by Nelson A. Miles

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Quotes by Moshe Sharett

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

Quotes by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Emotion Quotes

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.

Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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.

Quotes by Kim Weston

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Jules Verne

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

Quotes by Johnny Cash

In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.

Quotes by John Quelch

Movement Quotes

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.

Quotes by John Hoeven

Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.

Quotes by John Burroughs

Love has a tide!

Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

Time and tide wait for no man.

Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Quotes by Diane Abbott

Nature Quotes

During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks...

Quotes by David Petraeus

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the tide used as a metaphor in this topic?
Most often for exposure and change, like the idea that a receding tide reveals who wasn't prepared, or that industries move in waves like electric currents.
Does this topic mention personal struggle against a current?
Yes, one quote describes feeling completely devastated for years while trying to push against a strong tide of circumstance.
Is immigration discussed using this metaphor?
One quote compares the pace of immigration in a country to a tide, noting it hasn't matched the scale seen along a certain frontier.
Does the topic connect tides to natural science?
One quote draws a direct comparison between ocean tides and wave motion found across different branches of industry.
What topic pairs well with Tide quotes?
Our Change quotes expand on this idea of shifting circumstance beyond just the tide metaphor.

Some quotes describe the personal toll of struggling against a strong current, while others track larger movements like immigration patterns over time. Explore our Nature and Movement quotes.