Quotes About Ebb

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

The wave had not yet reached its lowest ebb when suddenly it began to rise again. Swaying, it rose higher than the first, and over this second wave, like foam boiling up on the crest, there seethed up a whistling and, here and there, the outcries of women distinguishable through the thunder...And those were moans of women who were crushed as the crowd surged forward. (40)

I always thought of YouTube as this super-finite thing where trends ebb and flow.

Love is the ocean. We are all the waves.

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnights; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in Athalie; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola.

In my career, my motivation has ebbed and flowed. Sometimes I was all about it, sometimes I felt really burnt out.

Time doesn't click on and on at the stroke. It comes and goes in waves and folds like water; it flutters and sifts like dust, rises, billows, falls back on itself. When a wave breaks, the water is not moving. The swell has traveled great distances but only the energy is moving, not the waves. Perhaps time moves through us and not through it.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

The country needs leadership driven by the dictates of national security, not the ebb and flow of political fortunes.

sometimes love was a choice. Like the tide, it could ebb and flow, and there were slack-tide times when a woman had nothing to believe in except a memory, nothing to cling to except the choice she'd made a long time ago.

You always return to the water...

Whatever film I'm making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and flow of it that is heartfelt.

The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.

With the ebb of lust, an ashen sense of awfulness, abetted by the realistic drabness of a grey neuralgic day, crept over me and hummed within my temples.

Know that birth and death are the crests and trough of One Wave.

The universe flows in two directions simultaneously.

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!

The river overflows, not the sun. (Déborde le fleuve, Pas le soleil)

He's a-going out with the tide.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Life seemed so much stronger than death, death so much stronger than life. Like the ebb and flow of the tide.