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Quotes About Surge

All at once I began dreading to look at them as they passed. I saw the close moonlit space where they would surge by, and had curious thoughts about the irredeemable pollution of that space. They would perhaps be the worst of all Innsmouth types--something one would not care to remember. The
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Awareness started to creep in, clawing its way past the pain and numbness. He was lying on cold ground, his right cheek on a rough, hard floor. Concrete maybe. Adam tried to open his eyes, but it felt like spiders had spun webs across them. When he blinked hard, a fresh surge of pain nearly made him gasp out loud. When
~ Harlan Coben
Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.
~ Cathleen Schine
The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.
~ Will Hurd
When desire is killed out by a variety of methods of meditation and contemplation, what remains is a psychic corpse from which the libidinal cosmic force of the vital surge has been artificially removed.
~ Stephan A. Hoeller
Here is the frightening aspect of the global supply chain," said Joe. "When there is a surge in demand, inventory goes to zero. Just-in-time manufacturing. Great concept! Horrible in a pandemic.
~ Michael Lewis
The silence surged back, smoothing itself as black water smooths to its old surface calm over a dropped stone.
~ Sylvia Plath
There are three stages of boiling: the first boil is when the little bubbles like the eye of fishes swim on the surface; the second boil is when the bubbles are like crystal beads rolling in a fountain; the third boil is when the billows surge wildly in the kettle.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush.
~ Henry James
A minimum of twenty-five thousand people, certainly many more, perished in the Great Drowning. Storm surges were even more frequent between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, such as the apocalyptic St.
~ Brian M. Fagan
Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded.
~ Travis Kalanick
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight.
~ Thomas Hardy
The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I was happy then, standing in the surge with lines of moonlight catching on my rubber boots. This is something that needs explaining, how light emerges from darkness, how comfort wells up from sorrow. The Earth holds every possibility inside it, and the mystery of transformation, one thing into another. This is the wildest comfort.
~ Kathleen Dean Moore
Coop's sending thundered in my mind. We come. I smiled. Felt a surge of adrenaline. "You made a mistake, Will. You didn't catch us all." He snorted. "You're gonna stop us, alone?" Leaves rustled behind me. Speckman's gaze flicked over my shoulder. "Alone?" I barked a laugh. "Guess you haven't met the extended family.
~ Kathy Reichs
The molecules of air caught in the sudden surge of atomic disruption, tore into glowing, burning ions, and marked out the blinding thin line that struck at Mallow's heart—and splashed!
~ Isaac Asimov
the lucky surge of interest for reasons completely external to the works themselves.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Zapped while zipping.
~ Tim O'Brien
This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.
~ Harry Reid
Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive.
~ J. D. Martinez
Seize the night. And I blink and feel a surge of certainty and excitement, because of course that's what one does when one wants something. One seizes it. Well, maybe not all things. Cats, for example, do not respond well to seizure. Probably girls don't, either. So this might not be a good credo in life, but for Saturday nights in general and this one in particular, it works.
~ Laini Taylor
Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.
~ Kathy Valentine