Over Quotes

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I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat.… — Maya Angelou
All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. — Baltasar Gracian
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. — Herbert Hoover
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work. — Mary Kay Ash
Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile… — Hank Aaron
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. — Elwyn Brooks White
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as… — George Burns
Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability. — Shelley Winters
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'. — Daniel Handler
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. — Marilyn Ferguson
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it,… — Noam Chomsky
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist… — Paul Theroux
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. — Sigmund Freud
The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of… — Gary Larson
I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my… — Theodore Roethke
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and… — Deepak Chopra

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