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(on performing) It`s like a surge of electricity going through you. It`s almost like making love, but it`s even stronger than that . . . sometimes I think my heart is going to explode.

- Elvis Presley

The decline leaves us concerned. The income gap between rich and poor in New York is greater than anywhere else in the country. That`s all the more reason for us to hope for a closing surge in contributions and in donors.

- Jack Rosenthal

It`s going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

- Mike Foster

There is nowhere in Florida you`re going to outrun the wind, but you are going to be safe from that deadly wall of water, ... We do not try to empty out an entire region or county. We evacuate based on storm surge.

- Mike Stone

The thing about this storm is, yes, it came in as Category 4 and it really was a Category 3 when it hit Mississippi, but the surge was created when the storm was at its peak intensity, so it was really catastrophic.

- Tom Moore

I figured, if they`re going to do that, ... I`d throw in a surge, too.

- Mark Andrews

If our income, grade-point average, or social prestige increases, we feel an initial surge of pleasure. We then adapt to this new level of achievement, come to see it as normal, and require something even better to give us another surge of happiness.

- David Myers

For the bond market, it`s clearly not bullish, ... At a time where growth is strong, the labor market is still tight, and price pressures are building, the last thing you need is a surge in energy prices that will push inflation up across the board.

- Mike Ryan

Metropolitan New Orleans can take about 6 inches of rain. Though a concern, it`s not our main concern. . . . Storm surge is the real issue because it stresses the levee repairs and some areas that we haven`t had time to assess and repair.

- Susan Jackson

The surge in personal bankruptcy started a few years ago and has been building,

- Cherry Hill

You need heroes like that for a sport to surge the way basketball did with Michael Jordan. Now he`s gone and that sport is having problems.

- Dick Schaap

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.

- Allison Corrington

We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.

- Amy Patton

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.

- Andrew Schepers

If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea; if thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can`t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb; and if thou shouldest be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep, if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man (Jesus Christ) hath descended below them all; art thou greater than he?

- Andy Law
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The bankruptcy surge in 2005 will give us a benefit.

- Angie Cunningham

Hurricanes are like big suction cups, they lift the water underneath them, ... The combination of a high tide and storm surge (would) smash into Mexico, doing a lot of damage.

- Anne Reeves

When the wind speed began to go down the storm surge did not dissipate. ... There was essentially a lot more momentum in the water than there was in the wind.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

It was the most impressive storm surge I`ve ever witnessed. We had plenty of wind as one might have imagined, but what left an indelible mark was the power of the water.

- Arshad Hussain

These twin catalysts have been good for an 11 percent surge.

- Arthur Christiansen

What we are really concerned about is the storm surge and tremendous rains,

- Ashley Altman

In general, three miles of marsh will suppress one foot of surge. When Katrina hit, we lost 100 square miles of marsh.

- Ashraf Nubani

At least we didn`t have the tidal surge we expected,

- Barry Belcourt

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