Surging Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout…
— Tony Blair
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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
— D. H. Lawrence
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How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from…
— Julian Assange
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Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
— Corliss Lamont
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make…
— Ada Cambridge
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions…
— Mark Dvoretsky
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Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
— Robert W. Sarnoff
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I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not…
— Swami Vivekananda
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God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.
— Bruce Wilkinson
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Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course,…
— Xi Jinping
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Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching…
— David Abram
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses…
— Elizabeth Goudge
Who Wrote These Surging Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 47 Surging Quotes, led by these top contributors: