Over Quotes
25014 Over quotes by 11038 unique authors
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
— Plutarch
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My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about…
— John Keats
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That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a…
— Emily Perkins
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the…
— Erma Bombeck
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It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy…
— Martin Luther
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After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
— Chuck Yeager
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Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I…
— Hanna Reitsch
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Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling…
— Harriet Quimby
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What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a…
— Ernest K. Gann
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My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's…
— Unknown Author
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...
— Jeremiah Denton
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I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
— Yogi Berra
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Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than…
— Madeleine Albright
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The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists…
— Lindsey Graham
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I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge…
— Unknown Author
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I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down…
— Neil Young
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there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the…
— James Madison
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I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want…
— Joe Strummer
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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over…
— William Wordsworth
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...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The…
— Woodrow Wilson
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