Quotes of Surge - somelinesforyou

“ There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ”

- George Eliot

“ Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ We come and go just like ripples in a stream. ”

- John V. Politis

“ I need it all and I need it now' was my mentality before. I used to rush everything to get it done. ”

- Kenny Chesney

“ O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? ”

- Steven Wright

“ We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty. ”

- Charles Fillmore

“ When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd. ”

- Aaron Hill

“ Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done…, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. ”

- Carrie Chapman Catt

“ A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where. ”

- Lord Byron

“ The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems. ”

- Michael Fish

“ It does not ebb and flow... It flows and flows and flows. It's a never ending flowing sewer and you know it. ”

- Mike McCurry

“ There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. ”

- Aeschylus

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

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ”

- Theodore White

“ A surge of joy flooded over me that I shall never forget. I felt like shouting out that I had made a ball curve. I wanted to tell everybody - it was too good to keep to myself. ”

- Candy Cummings

“ As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life. ”

- Susan Jeffers

“ Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies. ”

- Sue Atchley Ebaugh

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

- Martin Buber

“ Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him… ”

- Sophocles
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