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Over Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of…
- None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
- Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
- And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its…
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to…
- A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out…
- But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
- We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the…
- What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there…
- It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
- Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
More Over Quotes
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough