Over Quotes
25014 quotes by 11038 authors
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
— A.J. Cronin
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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find…
— Melissa Bank
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Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over…
— Sheryl Crow
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Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
— Sigurd F. Olson
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
— Ramana Maharshi
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In any communication, or in any situation which you cannot confront because it is exaggerating, hot or aggressive, just change your breath. Breathe through the…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes…
— Norman Lear
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The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks…
— George Whitefield
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;…
— John Flavel
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Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not…
— William Whately
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Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it…
— Victor J. Stenger
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,…
— Roderick Murchison
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they…
— Herbert Spencer
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine…
— George Wald
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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