Surges Quotes

#1. Dodging a close call or tight spot felt like barely avoiding a horrible accident and winning the lottery all at the same time - and I felt surges of relief and exhilaration.

Charlie Spillers

#2. Data: My positronic brain has several layers of shielding to protect me from power surges. It would be possible for you to remove my cranial unit and take it with you.
Riker: Let me get this straight
you want me to take off your head?
Data: Yes sir

Star Trek The Next Generation

#3. Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. Pammy surges out of her seat, arm straining for the sky. She will apparently pee herself if she's not allowed to answer this question.

Josh Lieb

#6. If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.

Sri Aurobindo

#7. What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. The robot had no feelings, only positronic surges that mimicked those feelings. (And perhaps human beings had no feelings, only neuronic surges that were interpreted as feelings.)

Isaac Asimov

#9. Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.

Carl Jung

#10. Once again that mixture of fear and desire surges through my veins, the same kind of fire I imagine injected heroin must feel like - an agony so sweet you'd do anything for it.

Lilah Pace

#11. A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.

John Tomac

#12. You are not a sensitive and will never experience this, but raw data surges, blunt data with errors which are slowly refined like the process of chiselling out a sculpture from a block of marble.

Tade Thompson

#13. The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Elisabeth Elliot

#14. As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

James Hollis

#15. Humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt only the wise man, only he whose thoughts

James Allen

#16. Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
It surges, adding ever to its strength.

Ovid

#17. I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

Roland Barthes

#18. The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

Nicholas Stern

#19. What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that's why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all.

Natalie C. Parker

#20. Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

William Falconer

#21. The word "paracleta" means "the one who answers the cry." It is not possible to receive the Spirit unless we cry out, and unless that cry surges up from the consciousness of our own wound, our pain, and our brokenness.

Jean Vanier

#22. Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

Ville Valo

#23. Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

Alan Cohen

#24. A great free joy surges through me when I work ... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

Clyfford Still

#25. Tokyo is a model of that serial big-bang theory of the universe. It explodes at five P.M. and people matter is hurled to the suburbs, but by 5 A.M. the people-matter gravity reasserts itself, and everything surges back toward the center, where mass densens for the next explosion.

David Mitchell

#26. It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within.

Daisaku Ikeda

#27. Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him ...

Sophocles

#28. All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.

Hermann Hesse

#29. I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. I thought sometimes I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Beulah

Charlotte Bronte

#30. My blood pressure surges. Folks, unless you've walked the walk, never tell a widow it's time she moved on.

Kristan Higgins

#31. Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

Eileen Myles

#32. If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#33. The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

Francis Thompson

#34. Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it's a result of obedience to the Truth.

Alistair Begg

#35. The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far below, alone break the stillness.

Isabella L. Bird

#36. I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!

Christopher Isherwood

#37. Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"
He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right?

Lisa Renee Jones

#38. The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#39. From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

Frances Beinecke

#40. The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

Frank Shorter

#41. You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

A.J. Darkholme

#42. Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

Ian McEwan

#43. You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of consolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted.

Eileen Caddy

#44. The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Andre Gide

#45. In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on CNN discussing Afghanistan and troop surges as though they knew what the hell war was all about.

Pete Barber

#46. When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Martin Buber

#47. You've ruined me," she repeats, her voice quieting a little as it catches. "You've ruined me - you made me wake up. And now I can't get rid of you." Her voice surges again as I reach out, curling my hand around her arm, her skin flushed hot under my fingers. "You won't leave me alone.

Amie Kaufman

#48. Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#49. He was discovering that being in love was not a steady state, but a matter of fresh surges or waves, and he was experiencing one now.

Ian McEwan

#50. When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

Rumi

#51. Hmmm," you muse out loud. Your voice is deep and carnal, a sound which sends new surges of desire rushing to my sex. "These balls are awfully dusty - if only I knew a little slut who was good at polishing balls ...

Felicity Brandon

#52. When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

Frances Beinecke

#53. For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.

Floyd Patterson

#54. In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Rabindranath Tagore

#55. No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

#56. If connection is the energy that surges between people, we have to remember that those surges must travel in both directions.

Brene Brown

#57. You should read Spanish,' he said. 'It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian
Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders
but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in a flood.

W. Somerset Maugham

#58. I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre