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Quotes About Surge

the thunder from Down Under that gives you the second-most-powerful surge that can flow through your body.
~ AC/DC (Group)
the colonel surged to his feet like a gigantic belch
~ Joseph Heller
Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls,Boils round the naked melancholy islesOf farthest Thulè, and th' Atlantic surgePours in among the stormy Hebrides.
~ James Thomson
It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.
~ Tina Brown
We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.
~ Ray Nagin
The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.
~ Dexter Filkins
Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.
~ George Packer
The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected.
~ David Petraeus
Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.
~ Norman Davies
As much as I'd love to give everybody a really cheap option, it's just simply not possible in certain sorts of extreme events... I guarantee that our strategy on surge pricing is the optimal way to get as many people home as possible.
~ Travis Kalanick
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
~ William Vickrey
There was no surge in 501c4 applications in 2010.
~ Tim Griffin
While everyone of all political stripes are admitting that the surge is working and dramatically reducing the level of bloodshed in Iraq, Obama managed to complain that the Iraqis aren't spending as much in rebuilding their own country as a result of the surge.
~ Mike Gallagher
The Occupy movement flared and then seemed to fizzle out - until it re-emerged in the form of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and in the far-left surge that made Jeremy Corbyn leader of the British Labour Party.
~ Anne Applebaum
Looking back and knowing what I do, I believe the people who started the initial surge at Heysel were not Liverpool fans.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
Republicans can take cold comfort in the fact that the surge in millennial support for Obama that Democrats had hoped for in 2012 didn't turn up.
~ Margaret Hoover
Tidal waves surge forward, And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)
~ Wendy Shreve, Shadowwater
By the road to the contagious hospitalunder the surge of the bluemottled clouds driven from thenortheast—a cold wind.
~ William Carlos Williams
It's like a jolt of electric, but worse.
~ Lee Davidson, Satellite
But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.
~ Alexandra Fuller
Words flooded like the storm's surge in a wild burst of anger that took me utterly by surprise.
~ Kate Elliott
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.
~ Jessica Day George
By the end of the Surge, AQI/ISI was largely a spent force, unable to inflict casualties on Americans or Iraqis.
~ Jay Sekulow