Over Quotes
25014 Over quotes by 11038 unique authors
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In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and…
— Joy Harjo
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At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,…
— Joy Harjo
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My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes…
— Heidi Klum
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He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
— Petrarch
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All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the…
— William Graham Sumner
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It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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My career has been over since 1990.
— Mike Tyson
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They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice…
— Malcolm X
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There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we…
— Malcolm X
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This president (Barack Obama) I think has exposed himself over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white…
— Glenn Beck
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just…
— Napoleon Hill
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The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching…
— John C. Maxwell
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All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not…
— James A. Baldwin
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Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course,…
— Stan Getz
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Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought…
— Bob Filner
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I have been fighting over commas all my life.
— Mark Helprin
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No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in…
— Ingmar Bergman
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The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these…
— Antonio Gramsci
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There are two ways through life: the way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't…
— Terrence Malick
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the…
— Fareed Zakaria
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O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now.…
— Eugene B. Sledge
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