Quotes about engulf (16 Quotes)


    Thus strategists hesitate over the map, the few pins and lines of coloured chalk, contemplating a change in the pins and lines, a matter of inches, which outside the room, out of sight of the studious officers, may engulf the past, present and future in ruin or life. She was a symbol to herself then, lacking the life of both child and woman; victory and defeat were changes of pin and line; she knew nothing of war.


    It's a dense city built of 150-year-old wood, and these fires engulf structures very, very quickly. It's not just an issue of minutes that matter in response seconds matter. These brownouts have affected response times.

    What Do you then feel secure that He will not cause a tract of land to engulf you or send on you a tornado Then you shall not find a protector for yourselves.



    Globalization is a fact of life. The French, my comrade friend, may not like it, but we either have to deal with it or it will engulf us all. The old economic and social model of Europe won't work to deliver prosperity, social justice and jobs in the way it used to. And it's a big challenge, especially, if I may say so, for the country you represent and others on the Continent.


    April Rain It is not raining rain to me, Its raining daffodils In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town It is not raining rain to me, Its raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy A fig for him who frets It is not raining rain to me, Its raining violets.

    It lies fair and shining before him, a gem set betwixt sky and water,
    And spanning the river a bridge, frail promise to longing desire,
    Flung by man in his infinite courage, across the stern force of
    the water;
    And he looks at the river and fears, the bridge is so slight,
    yet he ventures
    His life to its fragile keeping, if it fails the waves will engulf
    him.



    It came from his coach, Glen Mason, as a maroon-and-gold celebration spilled from the field toward the dressing room and threatened to engulf them Saturday afternoon. Mason spotted Maroney walking up the ramp in the Metrodome. I said, 'You've got to run,' ... He said, 'Coach, I can't run.' He said, 'You carry me and run, and we'll get it done.'


    Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely 'some day.' Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.

    Russia has a major contribution to make to stability in the Balkans. Russia shares our concern that conflict not engulf the region again, and Russia is a key partner in efforts to build a secure and prosperous Europe,

    I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.



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