All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
Jose Mujica
LifeMy LifeTideBornWayRowing
Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
Christopher Columbus
MorningNightTideMeetAnchorUs
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
FutureHappinessPeopleWorldTide
A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.
Phil Gingrey
JobStartYouTideLostCreation
The tide will at last change for us if those of us who can lead do so, and do so by not just talking but making things happen. And to to those who support us, we must call out for action, real tangible actions to help us turn this tide our way.
Rick Tumlinson
ChangeSupportActionHelpTideWay
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart
LifeLiveBeginningWindTideOwn
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
Samuel Smiles
WorkMenSufferingTideDoneDuty
I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.
Gene Roddenberry
WarProudStoryNameShipTide
Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
Vidya Balan
TideOverEverythingConvictionWell
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
MotivationalNever Give UpTimeTide
I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
Andrew Buchan
LifeThinkYouTideLittleAlong
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.
John Tyler
BestMeInfluenceTidePersonal
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.
Ron Chernow
PastThinkTideBackCarryI Think
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.
Jonathan Raban
SeaCityFreeShipTideChains
From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
WaterRedLegalAmericanJudgeTide
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
Antonio Munoz Molina
LifeCourageGreatPeopleWindTide
I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched.
Sylvia Plath
SeaTeaBirdsThinkTideBorders
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.
Nikola Tesla
NatureWaveTideWillIndustryEbb
I was rowing the boat alone against a tide, running against an incumbent in 2013.
Elise Stefanik
AloneBoatTideRowingAgainst
There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.
Rebecca MacKinnon
CriticismTideRisingChinaBeen
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.
Geoff Mulgan
CommunityChildrenSocietyFreeTide
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
Samuel Alexander
PersonalitySelfYouTideDesire
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
InspirationalNever Give UpTimeTide
I didn't want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person... I think the tide of music is changing. We don't have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.
Andra Day
GoodMusicThinkWorryTideRules
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