Over Quotes
25014 Over quotes by 11038 unique authors
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An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings…
— William L. Shirer
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have…
— Saint Augustine
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Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that…
— Saul Williams
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We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only…
— Harry S. Truman
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No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are…
— Jack Handey
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In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
— Mark Twain
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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an…
— Jean Genet
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We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about…
— Guy Steele
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is…
— Marquis de Sade
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You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it…
— Suze Orman
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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of…
— Lord Byron
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I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter…
— Edward Hoagland
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
— Rudyard Kipling
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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example.…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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The truth is, I love Firestar now as much as I ever did, and I'll watch over him forever, knowing that he can never be…
— Erin Hunter
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying…
— Thomas Szasz
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